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PURPLE CRESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers
Synonyms:
Cardamine douglasii; purple cress
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("purple cress" is a kind of...):
bitter cress; bittercress (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)