bitter cress

1. 1.

   any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic

   Synonymsbittercress

   Broadercress

   Narrowerlady's smockcoral-root bittercresscrinklerootspring cresspurple cress

   Part ofCardamine

Questions about bitter cress

What does bitter cress mean?

bitter cress means "any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic".

What is another word for bitter cress?

Close synonyms include bittercress. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bitter cress a common word?

bitter cress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.