The common name of various cruciferous plants, having mostly edible leaves of a pungent flavour. (Until… spec. garden cress, Lepidium sativum, or wate…

Garden cress, Lepidium sativum. Formerly also in plural with singular agreement.

Originally: any of various plants of the family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) having a pungent taste, esp. garden cress, Lepidium sativum, and…

Any of several hardy perennial aquatic or semiaquatic plants of the genus Nasturtium (family Brassicaeae… In plural.

= cress, n. Obsolete. rare.

name for garden cress (Lepidium sativum).

any of various plants having a peppery taste; esp. (a) biting stonecrop, Sedum acre; (b) pepperwort (Lepidium species), esp. dittander, L. latifolium.

seedlings of white mustard (sometimes commercially replaced by rape seedlings, Brassica napus) and of cress (Lepidium sativum) used as a garnish…

= watercress, n. (Nasturtium officinale).

a plant, Spilanthes oleracea (family Asteraceae (Compositae)), cultivated in tropical countries as a salad plant.