winter cress

Questions about winter cress

What does winter cress mean?

winter cress means "any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses; widely cultivated for winter salad". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for winter cress?

Close synonyms include St. Barbara's herb, scurvy grass. 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 winter cress a common word?

winter cress is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.