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Any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers
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bittercress
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bittercress \bit"ter*cress\ n. any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except in the Antarctic. Syn: bitter cress.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bittercress or Bitter-cress may refer to: Barbarea vulgaris Any plant in the Cardamine genus, especially Cardamine bulbosa , Cardamine hirsuta
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic [syn: bitter cress ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Barbarea vulgaris species noshow=1), a biennial herb native to Europe. 2 Any plant of the ''Cardamine'' genus, especially (taxlink Cardamine bulbosa species noshow=1) and (taxlink Cardamine hirsuta species noshow=1).
Usage examples of bittercress.
I shall fish, and instead of cooking our dreary rations, you shall gather berries, and some of that nice-looking bittercress that we spied growing beside the bog-pool a short way back along the trail.