The Collaborative International Dictionary
Water cress \Wa"ter cress`\ (Bot.) A perennial cruciferous herb ( Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
Usage examples of "water cress".
There was an egg to symbolize the freewill offering, and water cress for the coming of spring, and the shank of lamb bone to recall the offerings to God in the Great Temple.
He had eaten, two full meals of food such as he had forgotten could exist after days of half-cooked fish and half-rotten venison - cornbread and sorghum and young rabbits fried in a smoking skillet, with creamed new potatoes and greens the children had gone out and gathered and a salad of water cress pulled from the spring below the house and for supper fresh eggs just taken from the nest.