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    CRESS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbsplay

    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 tasteplay

    Synonyms:

    cress; cress plant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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