cress

English

Cress

Etymology

Old English cressa, from West Proto-Germanic *krasjon-, from Proto-Indo-European *gras-. Cognates include Sanskrit ग्रसति (grasati), Dutch kers, German Kresse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

cress (countable and uncountable, plural cresses)

1. (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

terms derived from cress (noun)

• garden cress
• land cress
• watercress
• alpine rock cress
• bulbous cress
• cedar glade cress
• hoary bitter cress

• hoary cress
• Indian cress
• marsh cress
• peppercress
• rockcress
• thale cress, mouse-ear cress
• wart cress
• winter cress

Translations

a plant

• Arabic: حُرْف‎ (ar) m (ḥurf), رَشَاد‎ m pl (rašād)
• Armenian: կոտեմ (hy) (kotem)

  Middle Armenian: կոտեմ (kotem)

• Bulgarian: кресон (kreson)
• Esperanto: kreso
• Finnish: krassi (fi)
• French: cresson (fr) m
• Galician: berro m
• Georgian: წიწმატი (c̣ic̣maṭi)
• German: Kresse (de) f
• Greek: κάρδαμο (el) n (kárdamo)
• Hungarian: zsázsa (hu)

• Icelandic: karsi (is) m, krassi m
• Italian: crescione m
• Maori: kirihi
• Polish: rzeżucha (pl) f
• Portuguese: agrião (pt) m
• Russian: кресс (ru) m (kress), кресс-сала́т (ru) m (kress-salát)
• Spanish: mastuerzo (es), berro (es), nasturcio m
• Swedish: krasse (sv)
• Turkish: tere (tr)
• Vietnamese: cải xoong
• Welsh: berwr