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Definition of Cress green
1. Adjective. Of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cress Green
Literary usage of Cress green
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dietetics; Or, Food in Health and Disease: Or Food in Health and Disease by William Tibbles (1914)
"... Jerusalem artichokes, turnips, mustard and cress, green onions, sorrel, and
dandelion leaves, are allowed for most cases. Cooked vegetables should be ..."
2. Personal Hygiene and Physical Training for Women by Anna Mary Galbraith (1916)
"Salads, lettuce, water-cress, green onions, celery, tomatoes, etc., are so valuable
for the juices contained in them that they cannot be too strongly ..."
3. Researches on the Nature and Treatment of Diabetes by Frederick William Pavy (1862)
"Mustard and cress. Green lettuce. Celery and radishes may be partaken sparingly of.
Greens. Spinach. Jelly, flavoured, but not sweetened. ..."
4. A Manual of the practice of medicine by Frederick Taylor (1898)
"... mustard and cress ; green lettuce picked from the white stalk ; mushrooms,
cucumber, vinegar; oil; pickles ; eggs dressed in any way ..."
5. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1862)
"Mustard and cress. Green lettuce. Celery and radishes may be partaken sparingly of.
Greens. Spinach. Jelly, flavoured, but not sweetened. ..."
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