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noun
Barbarea vulgaris (garden yellowrocket), a biennial herb native to Europe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any plant of the Cardamine genus, especially Cardamine bulbosa and Cardamine hirsuta.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bitter cress
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cress, cress plant
Narrower terms: lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensis, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera, crinkleroot, crinkle-root, crinkle root, pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla, spring cress, Cardamine bulbosa, purple cress, Cardamine douglasii
History
From bitter + cress.
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
