noun
definition
(plants) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Examples of cress in a Sentence
Cress is my favorite Exmoor pony in many ways.
In the violet the calycine segments are prolonged downwards beyond their insertions, and in the Indian cress (Tropaeolum) this prolongation is in the form of a spur (calcar), formed by three sepals; in Delphinium it is formed by one.
Judging by the signs, the little river Ecole also supports a thriving water cress industry.
Having found this gene in thale cress, they now know what to look for in important crop species.
The main buildings on the site are a 1 hectare greenhouse for salad cress production and a 5 hectare greenhouse growing pot herbs.
Coriander (cilantro ), garden cress, and dill are short-lived annuals that, when cut for harvest, do not regrow.
Or rolling out a tartan rug and getting sand in egg and cress sandwiches on a beautiful but windswept beach?
They discussed what seeds need to germinate and planted runner beans and cress.
Students have successfully grown cress seedlings in glass tubes of agar containing the metal ions.
Rock Cress (Arabis) - A large family of hill-plants, few of which are grown.
A. albida (White Rock Cress) will grow in any soil, where its sheets of snowy bloom may open in early spring.
It is closely allied to the alpine Rock Cress (A. alpina), so widely distributed on the Alps, but is distinct, and the best kind.
A. blepharophylla (Rosy Rock Cress) is not unlike the white Arabis, but the flowers are rosy-purple.
Violet Cress (Ionopsidium) - I. acaule is a charming little Portuguese annual about 2 inches high, whose dense tufts of violet flowers spring up freely where plants of it have existed the previous season.
Barbarea, which is also known as winter cress, is an edible biennial plant that produces yellow flowers.
Onions may be forced like mustard and cress if required for winter salads, the seeds being sown thickly in boxes which are to be placed in a warm house or frame.
Sow also in heat mustard and cress for salads, onions for salads; tomatoes, celery to be pricked out for an early crop; and Early Horn carrot and kidney-beans on slight hotbeds.
After lunch she wanted to use the egg shells to grow cress in - no cress, so they now have basil.
Secondly if the seedlings were of genuine cress (L. sativum) they would have lobed cotyledons and taste " hot " .
You can trim the cress into all kinds of funny haircuts, or even use the cress in sandwhiches!
I christened them last night by planting out American land cress, Little Gem lettuce, spinach and chervil.
Rare plants such as large bitter cress, lanceolate water plantain and elongated sedge grow where the wood is wettest.