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WINTER CRESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cress cultivated for winter salads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("winter cress" is a kind of...):
cress (pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses; widely cultivated for winter salad
Synonyms:
scurvy grass; St. Barbara's herb; winter cress
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("winter cress" 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 "winter cress"):
American cress; American watercress; Barbarea praecox; Barbarea verna; Belle Isle cress; early winter cress; land cress (of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida)
Holonyms ("winter cress" is a member of...):
Barbarea; genus Barbarea (biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress)
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