cress

1. n. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Source: opted

2. n. any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste Source: wordnet

3. n. pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs Source: wordnet

4. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. Goldsmith. Bitter cress. See under Bitter. -- Not worth a cress, or "not worth a kers." a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a curse." Skeat. Source: webster

5. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaveshave a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad andantiscorbutic. Source: adambom

6. n:100 n. any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste n. pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs Source: ecdict

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