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/kɹɛs/ · noun
(botany) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic..
Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.
Use cress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cress means (botany) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic..
Common synonyms include cress plant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.
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