Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants in the mustard family having pungent leaves, such as garden cress, watercress, or winter cress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common name of many species of plants, most of them of the natural order Cruciferæ.
- noun The common garden-cress, Lepidium sativum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
- noun See under
Bitter . - noun a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless “
not worth a curse .”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
plant of various species, chieflycruciferous . The leaves have a moderatelypungent taste, and are used as asalad andantiscorbutic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
- noun pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs
Etymologies
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Examples
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The delicate French rolls which were now always ready for her uncle's plate in the morning, had sometimes nothing to back them, unless the unfailing water-cress from the good little spring in the meadow.
Queechy 1854
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There are also areas for cress, which is produced in part by independent small farmers in Batabano and by cooperatives, although we are going to develop other areas for cress.
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There was _zamouta_, an umbelliferous plant, the seed of which is used in coffee, and _habat-assoba_ for putting in bread; coriander, chili, fennel, and _helf_, a plant very like tall cress, which is used in cookery and also raw, and which we liked as
Southern Arabia Mabel Bent
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The tops, leaves, and stalks of a kind of cress, gathered at the proper season of the year, tied up in bunches, and afterwards steamed in an oven, furnish a favourite, and inexhaustible supply of food for an unlimited number of natives.
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The tops, leaves, and stalks of a kind of cress, gathered at the proper season of the year, tied up in bunches, and afterwards steamed in an oven, furnish a favourite, and inexhaustible supply of food for an unlimited number of natives.
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The tops, leaves, and stalks of a kind of cress, gathered at the proper season of the year, tied up in bunches, and afterwards steamed in an oven, furnish a favourite, and inexhaustible supply of food for an unlimited number of natives.
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Cucumber with cream cheese on caraway seed bread, egg mayonnaise with shiso cress on white bread, chicken with wholegrain mustard mayonnaise on basil bread and buttery smoked salmon on granary bread.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Takes Tea Where? In London, England, The Promenade in The Dorchester Hotel Mara Gibbs 2011
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You'll probably get away with an egg and cress sandwich but best leave the chilli bhajis at home.
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You'll probably get away with an egg and cress sandwich but best leave the chilli bhajis at home.
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Cucumber with cream cheese on caraway seed bread, egg mayonnaise with shiso cress on white bread, chicken with wholegrain mustard mayonnaise on basil bread and buttery smoked salmon on granary bread.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Takes Tea Where? In London, England, The Promenade in The Dorchester Hotel Mara Gibbs 2011
brtom commented on the word cress
Let Anaiah bless with the Dragon-fly, who sails over the pond by the wood-side and feedeth on the cressies. (from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart)
December 31, 2007