The common name of various cruciferous plants, having mostly edible leaves of a pungent flavour. (Until… spec. garden cress, Lepidium sativum, or wate…

Garden cress, Lepidium sativum. Formerly also in plural with singular agreement.

= watercress, n. (Nasturtium officinale).

Watercress, Nasturtium officinale; cf. well grass n. at well, n.1 compounds 3. In early use perhaps also: fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum, or…

Originally: any of various plants of the family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) having a pungent taste, esp. garden cress, Lepidium sativum, and…

Any of several hardy perennial aquatic or semiaquatic plants of the genus Nasturtium (family Brassicaeae… In singular.

garden-cress (cf. Middle English toun-cresse).

Usually with distinguishing word. Any of various other (chiefly cruciferous) plants likened to watercress in appearance, pungency of taste, or…

More fully women's meadwort. Probably: winter cress, Barbarea vulgaris.

a type of cress widely cultivated for its leaves which have a tangy peppery flavour, Lepidium sativum (family Brassicaceae).

An (unidentified) plant. Obsolete.

White hellebore, Veratrum album. Cf. neezewort, n.

Any of several plants with a pungent smell or taste, as garden cress (Lepidium sativum), watercress (Nasturtium aquaticum), and wild mint (Mentha aqu…

Any of various aquatic or semiaquatic plants of the genus Rorippa (family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)), as creeping yellow cress, R. sylvestris…

Garden cress, Lepidium sativum. Cf. nosesmart, n.

any of several water plants; esp. watercress, Nasturtium officinale; cf. well-girse n., well-cress, n.

= cress, n. Obsolete. rare.

Chiefly Irish English. Watercress, Nasturtium officinale.

name for garden cress (Lepidium sativum).

any of various plants having a peppery taste; esp. (a) biting stonecrop, Sedum acre; (b) pepperwort (Lepidium species), esp. dittander, L. latifolium.

creeping yellow-cress, Rorippa sylvestris.

Garden cress, Lepidium sativum.