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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cress
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A summery variation is to add finely chopped cress.
▪ Cotton Wool garden: Mustard and cress seeds grow readily on damp cotton wool.
▪ Land cress, a dry-land watercress, should be sown in August outdoors, or in modules for transplanting later.
▪ Risk of Salmonella in undercooked eggs, bacteria in cress.
▪ To serve; sprinkle with mustard and cress.
▪ You could also sow seeds, such as mustard and cress, in the pot and see if the woodlice eat the seedlings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cress

Cress \Cress\ (kr[e^]s), n.; pl. Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses.

To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.
--Goldsmith.

Bitter cress. See under Bitter.

Not worth a cress, or ``not worth a kers.'' a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless ``not worth a curse.''
--Skeat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cress

Old English cresse, originally cærse, from Proto-Germanic *krasjon- (cognates: Middle Low German kerse, karse; Middle Dutch kersse; Old High German kresso, German Kresse), from PIE root *gras- "to devour" (see gastric). It underwent a metathesis similar to that of grass. French cresson, Italian crescione are Germanic loan-words.

Wiktionary
cress

n. (context botany English) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

WordNet
cress
  1. n. any of various plants of the family Cruciferae having edible pungent-tasting leaves [syn: cress plant]

  2. pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs

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Cress

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Cress (novel)

Cress is the third novel in Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of " Rapunzel", similar to its predecessors Cinder and Scarlet which were loosely based on " Cinderella" and " Little Red Riding Hood" respectively.

Usage examples of "cress".

The several varieties of Cress are stimulating and anti-scorbutic, whilst each contains a particular essential principle, of acrid flavour, and of sharp biting qualities.

And therefore the leaves of wild Cresses were eaten as a substitute for giving pungency to the food.

There were cresses, horseradish, turnips, and lastly, little branching hairy stalks, scarcely more than three feet high, which produced brownish grains.

And the beards of the mullets that he ordered to be served were so large that they were brought on, in place of cress or parsley or pickled beans or fenugreek, in well-filled bowls and disk-shaped platters -- a particularly amazing performance.

Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.

Several excursions were made into the Jacamar Wood and the forests of the Far West, and they brought back from thence a large collection of wild vegetables, spinach, cress, radishes, and turnips, which careful culture would soon improve, and which would temper the regimen on which the settlers had till then subsisted.

I had set Brianna to collect cress, while I poked about the trees in search of wood ears and other edible fungi.

That the secretion penetrates their coats is also evident from the large proportion of cabbage, raddish, and cress seeds which were killed, and from several of the seedlings being greatly injured.

The crocus of the glen, the anemone of the prairie, the cress of the sheltered waters, the hum of the first insect, the twitter from the mossy nest, the murmur of forest streams, were all so many types of human rejuvenescence and animation.

Camembert cheese heated slightly, just enough to spread, a Boston rarebit made with cream and egg left over scrambled eggs and cress, roast chicken and chopped dill pickles, cheese and chopped dates or figs, orange marmalade, and sardines pounded to a paste with a few drops of lemon juice added.

Her hat, which was flowery, resembled those punnets, covered with flannel, which we sowed with mustard and cress in our childhood, and which germinated here yes, and there no.

They seated themselves on either side of the hearth while Cumara served them with summer foods: berries and soft cheese, stewed cresses, a cake made of flour, curds, and eggs.

Ruby came to find out he had cooked it up with a strip of fatback and eaten it like cresses.

Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.

The man behind her began to move watchfully to the side, as Elsevier and Cress got to their feet together.