cressy

See also: Cressy

English

Etymology

From cress +‎ -y.

Adjective

cressy (comparative more cressy, superlative most cressy)

1. Abounding in cresses.
   • 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:

     Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves.

2. Resembling or characteristic of cress.
   • 1942, Circular, number 633, page 25:

     a slightly cressy flavor

Anagrams

• cysers