one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
Examples of 'bittercress' in a sentence
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That great weed of spring, hairy bittercress, is already growing and even flowering.
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Pull out hairy bittercress before it can fling out its seed.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Common offenders are annual meadow grass, chickweed, fat hen, groundsel, hairy bittercress, redshank and shepherd's purse.
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Hairy bittercress arrives on the surface of the plants you bring home from the garden centre, then gets everywhere.
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Eat more wild greens such as wood bittercress, a herb available even at this time of year.