cress
English
Cress
Etymology
From Middle English cresse, crasse, from Old English cressa, cærse (“cress”), from Proto-West Germanic *krassjō, from Proto-Germanic *krasjô (“cress”). Cognate with West Frisian kers (“cress”), Dutch kers (“cress”), German Kresse (“cress”), Danish karse (“cress”), Swedish krasse (“cress”), Icelandic krassi (“cress”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɹɛs/
Audio (Berkshire, UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
cress (countable and uncountable, plural cresses)
- (plants) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Derived terms
terms derived from cress (noun)
- alpine rock cress (Arabis alpina)
- Austrian cress (Rorippa austriaca)
- bastard cress (Lepidium campestre, Thlaspi arvense)
- bittercress, bitter-cress, bog cress (Barbarea vulgaris)
- blister cress (Erysimum spp. and Cheiranthus spp.)
- bulbous cress (Cardamine bulbosa)
- California cress (Sisymbrium officinale)
- cedar glade cress (Leavenworthia stylosa)
- chamois cress (Pritzelago alpina, Lepidium alpina)
- cow cress (Lepidium campestre)
- cress rocket (Vella pseudocytisus)
- cressweed (Diplotaxis muralis)
- cresswort (Brassicaceae spp.)
- curled cress (Barbarea vulgaris)
- dock cress (Lampsana communis)
- fetid cress (Lepidium ruderale)
- field cress (Lepidium campestre)
- fool's cress (Apium nodiflorum)
- garden cress (Lepidium sativum)
- golden cress (Lepidium sativum)
- hairy bitter cress (Cardamine hirsuta)
- hoary cress (Lepidium draba)
- Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus)
- lake cress (Armoracia aquatica)
- lamb's cress (Cardamine hirsuta)
- land cress (Barbarea verna)
- marsh cress (Rorippa palustris)
- meadow cress (Cardamine pratensis)
- monks cress, monk's cress (Tropaeolum majus)
- mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
- northern rock cress (Arabis petraea)
- not worth a cress
- pennycress (Thlaspi arvense)
- peppercress (Lepidium spp.)
- Peter's cress
- river cress (Armoracia aquatica)
- rockcress (species of Arabis, Arabidopsis, Cardaminopsis), Boechera, and Braya)
- rocketcress (Barbarea vulgaris)
- shepherd's cress (Teesdalia nudicaulis)
- Spanish cress (Lepidium cardamines)
- spring cress (Cardamine bulbosa)
- St. Barbara's cress (Barbarea spp.)
- stone cress (Aethionema grandiflorum)
- summer cress
- swine's cress (Coronopus spp.)
- thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
- Thanet cress (Lepidium draba)
- town cress (Lepidium sativum)
- trophy cress (Tropaeolum spp.)
- tower cress (Arabis glabra, Arabis turrita)
- upland cress (Barbarea verna)
- wart cress (Lepidium spp., Coronopus spp.)
- watercress, water-cress (Nasturtium officinale; also Nasturtium microphyllum)
- wall cress
- well cress
- winter cress (Barbarea vulgaris)
- yellow cress (Barbarea praecox))
- yellowcress (Rorippa spp., esp. Rorippa palustris)
Translations
a plant
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English cross, from Old English cros.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 32
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