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Definition of Bitter cress
1. Noun. Any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic.
Generic synonyms: Cress, Cress Plant
Group relationships: Cardamine, Genus Cardamine
Specialized synonyms: Cardamine Pratensis, Cuckoo Flower, Cuckooflower, Lady's Smock, Meadow Cress, Cardamine Bulbifera, Coral-root Bittercress, Coralroot, Coralwort, Dentaria Bulbifera, Cardamine Diphylla, Crinkle Root, Crinkle-root, Crinkleroot, Dentaria Diphylla, Pepper Root, Toothwort, Cardamine Bulbosa, Spring Cress, Cardamine Douglasii, Purple Cress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bitter Cress
Literary usage of Bitter cress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"... and grow so far apart on a long slender stalk, as to have only a weedy effect
in a garden. GENUS III. CARDAMINE, Lin. THE bitter cress. Lin. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"April-May. Ladies'-smock or smick-smock. Milk-maid. Spink. May-flower. 2.
Cardamine hirsuta L. Hairy Bitter- cress. Fig. 2084. Cardamine hirsuta L. Sp. PI. ..."
3. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"... and grow so far apart on a long slender stalk, as to have only a weedy effect
in a garden. GENUS III. CARDAMINE, Lin. THE bitter cress. Lin. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"April-May. Ladies'-smock or smick-smock. Milk-maid. Spink. May-flower. 2.
Cardamine hirsuta L. Hairy Bitter- cress. Fig. 2084. Cardamine hirsuta L. Sp. PI. ..."
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