Cress

n.

1.

(Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. - Goldsmith. Bitter cress See under Bitter. Not worth a cress a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a curse." - Skeat.

Noun	1.	cress - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae having edible pungent-tasting leaves Synonyms: cress plant
	2.	cress - pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs

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