PURPLE CRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple cress mean? 

• PURPLE CRESS (noun)
  The noun PURPLE CRESS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PURPLE CRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPLE CRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cardamine douglasii; purple cress

Hypernyms ("purple cress" is a kind of...):

bitter cress; bittercress (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)