cress

Significado (Inglés)

A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

Sinónimos

cress plant

garden pepper cress

pepper grass

water fennel

poor man’s pepper

poor man's pepper

gardencress

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/kɹɛs/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

From Middle English cresse, crasse, from Old English cressa, cærse (“cress”), from Proto-West Germanic *krassjō, from Proto-Germanic *krasjô (“cress”). Cognate with West Frisian kers (“cress”), Dutch kers (“cress”), German Kresse (“cress”), Danish karse (“cress”), Swedish krasse (“cress”), Icelandic krassi (“cress”).

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