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noun
1.
any of various plants of the mustard family, especially the watercress, having pungent-tasting leaves often used for salad and as a garnish.
2.
any of various similar plants.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English cresse, Old English cress(a), cresse; cognate with Dutch kers, German Kresse
before 900; Middle English cresse, Old English cress(a), cresse; cognate with Dutch kers, German Kresse
Related forms
cress·y, adjective
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Cress
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| cress (krɛs) | |
| —n | |
| watercress See also garden cress any of various plants of the genera Lepidium, Cardamine, Arabis, etc, having pungent-tasting leaves often used in salads and as a garnish: family Brassicaceae (crucifers) | |
| [Old English cressa; related to Old High German cresso cress, kresan to crawl] | |
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Word Origin & History
cress
O.E. cresse, originally cærse, from P.Gmc. *krasjon-, which may be connected to creep, giving the word a literal sense of "creeper." It underwent a metathesis similar to grass.
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