Lepidium
noun
Le·pid·i·um
ləˈpidēəm
: a genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae having a rounded fruit with a notch or depression at its summit see canary grass sense 2, garden cress
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin, a plant, dittander, pepperwort, from Greek lepidion, diminutive of lepid-, lepis scale, flake