n. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The common name of many species of plants, most of them of the natural order Cruciferæ.
n. The common garden-cress, Lepidium sativum.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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
Word Usage
"The delicate French rolls which were now always ready for her uncle's plate in the morning, had sometimes nothing to back them, unless the unfailing water-cress from the good little spring in the meadow."