noun
any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
• Syn: ↑cress
• Hypernyms: ↑crucifer, ↑cruciferous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑watercress, ↑Arabidopsis thaliana, ↑mouse-ear cress, ↑Arabidopsis lyrata, ↑rock cress, ↑rockcress, ↑tower mustard, ↑tower cress, ↑Turritis glabra, ↑Arabis glabra, ↑winter cress, ↑St. Barbara's herb, ↑scurvy grass, ↑bittercress, ↑bitter cress, ↑common scurvy grass, ↑Cochlearia officinalis, ↑common garden cress, ↑garden pepper cress, ↑pepper grass, ↑pepperwort, ↑Lepidium sativum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cruciferae, ↑family Cruciferae, ↑Brassicaceae, ↑family Brassicaceae, ↑mustard family
Useful english dictionary. 2012.