PURPLE CRESS

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Meaning:

Small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers

Synonyms:

Cardamine douglasii; purple cress

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("purple cress" is a kind of...):

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)

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