purple cress

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   small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers

   SynonymsCardamine douglasii

   Broaderbittercress

Questions about purple cress

What does purple cress mean?

purple cress means "small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers".

What is another word for purple cress?

Close synonyms include Cardamine douglasii. 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 purple cress a common word?

purple 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.