peppergrass

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Etymology

pepper +‎ grass

Noun

peppergrass (plural peppergrasses)

  1. Any of the pungent herbs of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; pepperwort.
  2. The common pillwort of Europe (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for peppergrass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)