cress
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Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
terms derived from cress (noun)
- alpine rock cress
- bitter-cress
- bittercress (Barbarea vulgaris)
- bulbous cress
- cedar glade cress
- garden cress
- hoary bitter cress
- hoary cress
- Indian cress
- lamb's cress
- land cress
- marsh cress
- monks cress
- mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
- northern rock cress
- not worth a cress
- peppercress
- rockcress
- rocketcress (Barbarea vulgaris)
- Spanish cress
- St. Barbara's cress
- stone cress
- thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
- town cress
- wart cress
- water-cress
- watercress
- winter cress (Barbarea vulgaris)
Translations[edit]
a plant
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Lombard[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Akin to Italian crescere, from Latin.
Verb[edit]
cress
- to grow
Yola[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English cross, from Old English cros.
Noun[edit]
cress
References[edit]
- 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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