bittercress

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

   Synonymsbitter cress

   Broadercress

   Narrowerlady's smockcoral-root bittercresscrinklerootspring cresspurple cress

   Part ofCardamine

Other forms of bittercress

plural

bittercresses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bittercress

What does bittercress mean?

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

How many syllables are in bittercress?

bittercress has 3 syllables: bit-ter-cress. The stress falls on "bit".

What is another word for bittercress?

Close synonyms include bitter cress. 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 bittercress a common word?

bittercress 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.