Definition of Common garden cress

1. Noun. Annual herb used as salad green and garnish.

Exact synonyms: Garden Pepper Cress, Lepidium Sativum, Pepper Grass, Pepperwort
Terms within: Garden Cress
Generic synonyms: Cress, Cress Plant
Group relationships: Genus Lepidium, Lepidium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Garden Cress

common facial vein
common factor
common fate
common fault
common fennel
common fibular nerve
common fig
common fig tree
common flat pea
common four-o'clock
common foxglove
common fraction
common fractions
common front
common garden cress (current term)
common garter snake
common ginger
common glow-worm
common glow-worms
common glowworm
common goldeneye
common goldeneyes
common good
common grape hyacinth
common grape vine
common green lacewing
common green lacewings
common ground
common gull

Literary usage of Common garden cress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"When forced and blanched it makes a salad fit for the most cultivated epicure. For ordinary home cultivation and use, however, the common garden cress ..."

2. The Principles of Vegetable-gardening by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"The common garden cress (Lepidium sativum)>A$ a short-season annual. Figi 109. It is a cool-weather plant. Usually the leaves are not desired in the~snm- ..."

3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"Our common garden cress is also a Lepidium, and we may remember that Sir Edward Parry, during his Arctic explorations, grew it on the flues of his cabin, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"The common cresses are the English water cress; the American water cress; common garden cress and the Indian cress. The water cress is an aquatic plant, ..."

5. The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge: With an Appendix on by John Baxter (1830)
"2. The seeds, for druggists, distillers, confectioners, &c. CRESS. Three varieties of cress are cultivated in our gardens. 1. common garden cress ..."

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