land cress

Questions about land cress

What does land cress mean?

land cress means "of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida".

What is another word for land cress?

Close synonyms include Belle Isle cress, early winter cress, American cress, American watercress, Barbarea verna. 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 land cress a common word?

land 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.