bitter cress

/ˌbɪdər krɛs/

Other forms: bitter cresses

Definitions of bitter cress

1. noun

   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

   types:

   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