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PEPPERWORT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual herb used as salad green and garnish
Synonyms:
common garden cress; garden pepper cress; Lepidium sativum; pepper grass; pepperwort
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pepperwort" is a kind of...):
cress; cress plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste)
Meronyms (parts of "pepperwort"):
garden cress (cress cultivated for salads and garnishes)
Holonyms ("pepperwort" is a member of...):
genus Lepidium; Lepidium (cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets
Synonyms:
clover fern; pepperwort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("pepperwort" is a kind of...):
aquatic fern; water fern (ferns that grow in water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pepperwort"):
common nardoo; Marsilea drummondii; nardo; nardoo (Australian clover fern)
Marsilea quadrifolia; water clover (water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four leaflets resembling clover leaves)
Holonyms ("pepperwort" is a member of...):
genus Marsilea; Marsilea (clover ferns)
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