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bitter cress

DEFINITIONS OF: bitter cress

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n any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic

Synonyms:
bittercress
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Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, cuckooflower, lady's smock, meadow cress
a bitter cress of Europe and America
Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, coralwort
European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock
Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla, crinkle root, crinkle-root, crinkleroot, pepper root, toothwort
North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots
Cardamine bulbosa, spring cress
small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America
Cardamine douglasii, purple cress
small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers
Type of:
cress, cress plant
any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
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