Definition of Meadow cress

1. Noun. A bitter cress of Europe and America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Meadow Cress

mead hall
meader
meaderies
meaders
meadery
meadlike
meadow
meadow-beauty family
meadow beauty
meadow bright
meadow brown
meadow browns
meadow clary
meadow cranesbill
meadow cress (current term)
meadow dermatitis
meadow fern
meadow fescue
meadow foxtail
meadow goldenrod
meadow horsetail
meadow horsetails
meadow jumping mouse
meadow leek
meadow lily
meadow mouse
meadow muffin
meadow mushroom

Literary usage of Meadow cress

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

1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"French, cresson de pres [meadow-cress]; ... o crescione di prato: both signifying meadow-cress. FEW of the species of Cardamine are admitted into gardens. ..."

2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"An allied species, C. pratensis, is also called "bitter cress" but it has many other names among which are "meadow cress," derived from its specific name, ..."

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