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Definition of Land cress
1. Noun. Of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida.
Group relationships: Barbarea, Genus Barbarea
Generic synonyms: Scurvy Grass, St. Barbara's Herb, Winter Cress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Land Cress
Literary usage of Land cress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Br.) Europe and northern Asia, nat. in US Winter-cress, Land- cress, Herb Barbara,
... Europe, adv. in US Early Winter-cress, Belle Isle Cress, land cress. ..."
2. Vegetable Growing in New South Wales by Austin James Pinn, R. N. Makin (1920)
"CRESS. There are two types of cress—land-cress and water-cress. The land-cress
is a very fast growing crop and is utilised as a ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"LAND-CRESS, t. Winter cress. body of the coal is called the lam-floor. LAM -LA
KEN s, ». Arum maculatura. LA мы, (1) n. A plate of metal. (2) v. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(3) The same as Launde, qv LAND-CRESS. Winter-cress. South. LAND-DAMN. This word
is a Shakespearian puzzle. Perhaps the following passage will explain the ..."
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