cress plant

Questions about cress plant

What does cress plant mean?

cress plant means "any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste".

What is another word for cress plant?

Close synonyms include 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 cress plant a common word?

cress plant 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.