garden cress

1. 1.

   cress cultivated for salads and garnishes

   Broadercress

   Part ofcommon garden cress

Questions about garden cress

What does garden cress mean?

garden cress means "cress cultivated for salads and garnishes".

Is garden cress a common word?

garden 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.