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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Lepidium sativum
Lepidium sativum
n : annual herb used as salad green and garnish [syn:
common garden cress
,
garden pepper cress,
pepper grass,
pepperwort]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Lepidium sativum
Peppergrass
\Pep"per*grass`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) Any herb of the cruciferous genus
Lepidium, especially
the garden peppergrass, or garden cress,
Lepidium sativum
; -- called also
pepperwort. All the species
have a pungent flavor.
(b) The common pillwort of Europe (
Pilularia globulifera).
See
Pillwort.
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Cress
\Cress\ (kr[e^]s), n.; pl.
Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE.
ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers,
G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG.
chresan to creep.] (Bot.)
A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves
have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and
antiscorbutic.
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Note: The garden cress, called also
peppergrass, is the
Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the
Nasturtium officinale
. Various other plants are sometimes called
cresses.
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To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.
--Goldsmith.
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Bitter cress. See under
Bitter.
Not worth a cress, or
“not worth a kers.” a common old
proverb, now turned into the meaningless
“not worth a
curse.” --Skeat.
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