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Definition of Cress plant
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste.
Group relationships: Brassicaceae, Cruciferae, Family Brassicaceae, Family Cruciferae, Mustard Family
Generic synonyms: Crucifer, Cruciferous Plant
Specialized synonyms: Watercress, Arabidopsis Thaliana, Mouse-ear Cress, Arabidopsis Lyrata, Rock Cress, Rockcress, Arabis Glabra, Tower Cress, Tower Mustard, Turritis Glabra, Scurvy Grass, St. Barbara's Herb, Winter Cress, Bitter Cress, Bittercress, Cochlearia Officinalis, Common Scurvy Grass, Scurvy Grass, Common Garden Cress, Garden Pepper Cress, Lepidium Sativum, Pepper Grass, Pepperwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cress Plant
Literary usage of Cress plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Bacteria by Anton Bary, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1887)
"The germinating cress-plant in effect, first unfolds two small three-lobed leaves,
the seed-leaves or cotyledons. When it has grown a little further and ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"... a small, conical bud, from which successively arise all the aerial parts of
a new water-cress plant, while the roots multiply and lengthen. ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1905)
"... and before a new growth could develop, a heavy mat of algae would form upon
the surface of the water which would prevent the growth of the cress plant. ..."
4. How Crops Grow: A Treatise on the Chemical Composition, Structure and Life by Samuel William Johnson (1900)
"... from more than one cress-plant, all grown without chlorine. (Vs. St., XIII, p.
219.) Wagner also obtained, in absence of chlorine, maize- plants 40 ..."
5. Lectures on Bacteria by Anton Bary, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1887)
"The germinating cress-plant in effect, first unfolds two small three-lobed leaves,
the seed-leaves or cotyledons. When it has grown a little further and ..."
6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"... a small, conical bud, from which successively arise all the aerial parts of
a new water-cress plant, while the roots multiply and lengthen. ..."
7. Therapeutic Gazette (1905)
"... and before a new growth could develop, a heavy mat of algae would form upon
the surface of the water which would prevent the growth of the cress plant. ..."
8. How Crops Grow: A Treatise on the Chemical Composition, Structure and Life by Samuel William Johnson (1900)
"... from more than one cress-plant, all grown without chlorine. (Vs. St., XIII, p.
219.) Wagner also obtained, in absence of chlorine, maize- plants 40 ..."
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