spring cress

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   small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America

   SynonymsCardamine bulbosa

   Broaderbittercress

Questions about spring cress

What does spring cress mean?

spring cress means "small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America".

What is another word for spring cress?

Close synonyms include Cardamine bulbosa. 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 spring cress a common word?

spring 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.