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BITTERCRESS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic
Synonyms:
bitter cress; bittercress
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bittercress" is a kind of...):
cress; cress plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bittercress"):
Cardamine pratensis; cuckoo flower; cuckooflower; lady's smock; meadow cress (a bitter cress of Europe and America)
Cardamine bulbifera; coral-root bittercress; coralroot; coralwort; Dentaria bulbifera (European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock)
Cardamine diphylla; crinkle-root; crinkle root; crinkleroot; Dentaria diphylla; 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)
Holonyms ("bittercress" is a member of...):
Cardamine; genus Cardamine (bittercress, bitter cress)
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