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say it: KRES-uhn
cresson is an adjective meaning "of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green". It is pronounced /ˈkɹɛsən/ — KRES-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cresson come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.