noun
cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress
• Syn: ↑genus Lepidium
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cruciferae, ↑family Cruciferae, ↑Brassicaceae, ↑family Brassicaceae, ↑mustard family
• Member Meronyms: ↑common garden cress, ↑garden pepper cress, ↑pepper grass, ↑pepperwort, ↑Lepidium sativum
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\\ləˈpidēəm\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, a plant, dittander, pepperwort, from Greek lepidion, diminutive of lepid-, lepis scale, flake
: a genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae having a rounded fruit with a notch or depression at its summit — see canary grass 2, garden cress
Useful english dictionary. 2012.