meadow cress

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   a bitter cress of Europe and America

   Synonymslady's smockcuckooflowercuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis

   Broaderbittercress

Questions about meadow cress

What does meadow cress mean?

meadow cress means "a bitter cress of Europe and America".

What is another word for meadow cress?

Close synonyms include lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis. 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 meadow cress a common word?

meadow 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.