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CRESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cress" is a kind of...):
salad green; salad greens (greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cress"):
watercress (cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams)
garden cress (cress cultivated for salads and garnishes)
winter cress (cress cultivated for winter salads)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
Synonyms:
cress; cress plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cress" is a kind of...):
crucifer; cruciferous plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cress"):
watercress (any of several water-loving cresses)
Arabidopsis thaliana; mouse-ear cress (a small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described)
Arabidopsis lyrata (a small noninvasive cross-pollinating plant with white flowers; closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana)
rock cress; rockcress (any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis)
Arabis glabra; tower cress; tower mustard; Turritis glabra (or genus Arabis: erect cress widely distributed throughout Europe)
scurvy grass; St. Barbara's herb; winter cress (any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses; widely cultivated for winter salad)
bitter cress; bittercress (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)
Cochlearia officinalis; common scurvy grass; scurvy grass (a widely distributed Arctic cress reputed to have value in treatment or prevention of scurvy; a concentrated source of vitamin C)
common garden cress; garden pepper cress; Lepidium sativum; pepper grass; pepperwort (annual herb used as salad green and garnish)
Holonyms ("cress" is a member of...):
Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)
