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Definition of Common watercress

1. Noun. Perennial Eurasian cress growing chiefly in springs or running water having fleshy pungent leaves used in salads or as a potherb or garnish; introduced in North America and elsewhere.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Watercress

Literary usage of Common watercress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Swanage (Isle of Purbeck): Its History, Resources as an Invigorating Health by John Braye (1891)
"... bulbous buttercup, common red poppy, common watercress, common hedge mustard, wild mustard, shepherd's purse, dog violet, common milkwort, sea campion, ..."

2. The River-side Naturalist: Notes on the Various Forms of Life Met with by Edward Hamilton (1890)
"The leaves greatly resemble those of the common watercress, but are readily distinguished by the dilated sheathing base of the leaf-stalk, which is not so ..."

3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1889)
"... all feeding upon common watercress in a damp ditch ; nearly all have emerged, females of the first-named being far more numerous than males. ..."

4. The New Statistical Account of Scotland by Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy (1845)
"Nasturtium officinale, common watercress. wort. Plantations.— The plantations consist of oak, elm, ash, alder, birch, plane, lime, larch,—silver, spruce, ..."

5. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1872)
"... or in the nature of the common Watercress, which is becoming so great a nuisance in the watercourses of New Zealand—phenomena the more curious when it ..."

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