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BITTER CRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bitter cress mean? 

BITTER CRESS (noun)
  The noun BITTER CRESS has 1 sense:

1. any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarcticplay

  Familiarity information: BITTER CRESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BITTER CRESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bitter cress; bittercress

Hypernyms ("bitter cress" is a kind of...):

cress; cress plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bitter cress"):

Cardamine pratensis; cuckoo flower; cuckooflower; lady's smock; meadow cress (a bitter cress of Europe and America)

Cardamine bulbifera; coral-root bittercress; coralroot; coralwort; Dentaria bulbifera (European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock)

Cardamine diphylla; crinkle-root; crinkle root; crinkleroot; Dentaria diphylla; pepper root; toothwort (North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots)

Cardamine bulbosa; spring cress (small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America)

Cardamine douglasii; purple cress (small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers)

Holonyms ("bitter cress" is a member of...):

Cardamine; genus Cardamine (bittercress, bitter cress)


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