Usually means: Edible plant, peppery flavor, nutritious.
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  1. cress: Merriam-Webster
  2. cress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. cress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cress: Wiktionary
  8. cress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cress: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cress, cress: Dictionary.com
  12. cress: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cress (disambiguation), Cress (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. cress: Rhymezone
  15. Cress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. CRESS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. cress: FreeDictionary.org
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  21. Cress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  23. cress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  24. Cress, cress: Wordnik
  25. cress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cress)

▸ noun:  (plants) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
▸ noun:  Archaic form of kris. [A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.]

Similar:
cress plant, garden cress, town cress, lamb's cress, crucifer, Spanish cress, alkaliweed, rockcress, curd, stone cress, more...

Opposite:
wilt, decay, decline, decrease, shrivel

Phrases:
water cress, rock cress, garden cress, winter cress, Indian cress, more...

Adjectives:
water, indian, common, bitter, hoary, and, mustard, wild, penny, yellow, fresh

Colors:
    green,     olive,     lime,     forest green,     mint, more...


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Similar:
cress plant, garden cress, town cress, lamb's cress, crucifer, Spanish cress, alkaliweed, rockcress, curd, stone cress, more...

Opposite:
wilt, decay, decline, decrease, shrivel

Phrases:
water cress, rock cress, garden cress, winter cress, Indian cress, land cress, hoary cress, bitter cress, cress plant, wall cress, penny cress, upland cress, spring cress, marsh cress, yellow cress, cress green, more...

Adjectives:
water, indian, common, bitter, hoary, and, mustard, wild, penny, yellow, fresh

Colors:
    green,     olive,     lime,     forest green,     mint, more...



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