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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Lepidium sativum (0.01891 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Lepidium sativum.
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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]

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