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Watercress   /wˈɔtərkrˌɛs/   Listen
Watercress

adjective
1.
Of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green.  Synonyms: cress green, cresson.



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"Watercress" Quotes from Famous Books



... feelings would have been useless in this crisis. Albert, who seemed, on the evidence of a short but sufficient acquaintance, to be a lad who would not recognize the finer feelings if they were handed to him on a plate with watercress round them, promised to be invaluable. Something in his manner told George that the child was bursting with schemes for ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... should now be conscious of a pleasing titillation, for this is the green season par excellence. Watercress is at its cressiest; and lettuce springs from the earth for no other reason than to invite the attentions of those two culinary modistes, oil and vinegar—the Paquins of the kitchen—and so be "dressed", with ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 • Various

... advances, the consumption of meat and all flesh foods should be decreased and that of fruit and vegetables, especially those of bulky character and low food value, such as lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, turnips, salsify, oyster-plant, watercress, celery, parsnips, should ...
— How to Live - Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science • Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk

... distinguishing poisonous from edible fungi, and we can answer only that there are none other than those which apply to flowering plants. How can aconite, henbane, oenanthe, stramonium, and such plants, be distinguished from parsley, sorrel, watercress, or spinach? Manifestly not by any general characters, but by specific differences. And so it is with the fungi. We must learn to discriminate Agaricus muscarius from Agaricus rubescens, in the same manner as we would discriminate parsley from AEthusa ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... ill-made and ill-hemmed leaves on it, of no describable leaf-cloth or texture,—not cressic, (though the thing does altogether look a good deal like a quite uneatable old watercress); not salvian, for there's no look of warmth or comfort in them; not cauline, for there's no juice in them; not dryad, for there's no strength in them, nor apparent use: they seem only there, as far as I can make out, ...
— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Watercress" :   yellow watercress, great yellowcress, chromatic, Cruciferae, American watercress, marsh cress, cress plant, cress green, Nasturtium officinale, Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum, common watercress, Brassicaceae, mustard family, Rorippa islandica, Rorippa amphibia, family Brassicaceae, cress, Cardamine rotundifolia, Nasturtium amphibium, family Cruciferae



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