PEPPER GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pepper grass mean? 

• PEPPER GRASS (noun)
  The noun PEPPER GRASS has 1 sense:

1. annual herb used as salad green and garnish

  Familiarity information: PEPPER GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEPPER GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual herb used as salad green and garnish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common garden cress; garden pepper cress; Lepidium sativum; pepper grass; pepperwort

Hypernyms ("pepper grass" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "pepper grass"):

garden cress (cress cultivated for salads and garnishes)

Holonyms ("pepper grass" is a member of...):

genus Lepidium; Lepidium (cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress)