Crossword clues for watercress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A perennial European herb, ''Nasturtium officinale'', that grows in freshwater streams; used in salads and as a garnish. 2 A similar plant, (taxlink Nasturtium microphyllum species noshow=1).
WordNet
adj. of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green [syn: cress green, cresson]
n. any of several water-loving cresses
cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams
Wikipedia
Watercress is an aquatic plant species with the botanical name Nasturtium officinale. This should not be confused with the quite different group of plants with the common name of nasturtium, botanical name Tropaeolum.
Watercress is a rapidly growing, aquatic or semi-aquatic, perennial plant native to Europe and Asia, and one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. It is currently a member of the family Brassicaceae, botanically related to garden cress, mustard, radish and wasabi—all noteworthy for their piquant flavor.
The hollow stems of watercress will float, the leave structure is pinnately compound. Small, white and green flowers are produced in clusters and are frequently visited by insects, especially hoverflies such as Eristalis flies.
Usage examples of "watercress".
Pilgrims dined on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams, eels, corn, beans, wheat and corn breads, leeks, watercress, wild plums, and homemade wine.
A salad of scallions, fresh mushrooms, watercress, and fiddlehead ferns completed the course.
Not that Kate had ever seen a ladyfinger in real life, but she was very well read, and they ate ladyfingers and cucumber and watercress a lot in English novels.
Watercress, being rich in sulphuretted oil, is often served without oil.
Next morning, March 1, when a tax- collector was seen to demand payment from a woman vendor of watercress at Les Halles, the market people fell upon him and killed him.
They gathered watercress and learned to tickle the mountain trout, and hunt for yabbies, the small freshwater crayfish abundant in the mountain streams, so that they would often bring home a bountiful supply.
He understood the solemn feast laid out that night: haunches of pork basted in fat and served with a sauce of cream and crushed juniper berries, roast goose garnished with watercress, fish soup, hazelnut porridge, a stew of morels, and mead flavored with cranberries and bog myrtle.
Bacon in the fall, cheese in winter, pickled burbot and chives on toast in spring, and curds and watercress in summer.
It was every bit as ood as it had sounded, and the iced curacao lousse with strawberries, which followed the callops and salmon served with watercress auce, mushrooms and truffles, left her in a Peasant state of repletion which, however, didn't revent her getting up to dance at his suggestion with every sign of pleasure.
They hunted lizards and snakes and coneys, collected the juicy young pads of prickly pear and dug for tuberous roots in the dry tableland above the cliffs, picked samphire and watercress in the marshes by the margin of the river and waded out into the river's shallows and cast circular nets to catch fish, which they smoked on racks above fires built of creosote bush and pine chips.
The soup course was cream of watercress, followed by crabcakes with shitake mushrooms, baby beets in an orange glaze, and wild rice.
Uka tasted it, then added peeled thistle stalks, mushrooms, lily buds and roots, watercress, milkweed buds, small immature yams, cranberries carried from the other cave, arid wilted flowers from the previous day's growth of day lilies for thickening.
There was watercress soup, and sole, and a delightful omelette stuffed with mushrooms and truffles, and two small rare ducklings, and artichokes, and a dry yellow Rhone wine of which Bartley had always been very fond.
During the weeks that followed, when the head chef was looking the other way, Da Conho would assemble his machine gun, camouflage it with iceberg lettuce, watercress and Belgian endive, and mock-strafe the guests assembled in the dining room.
The natural dam held back a botanic garden of greenery: vertical walls bearded with maidenhair ferns, beds of lush watercress, myriads of colorful flowers Tommy could not identify.