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SPRING CRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spring cress mean?
• SPRING CRESS (noun)
The noun SPRING CRESS has 1 sense:
1. small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America
Familiarity information: SPRING CRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cardamine bulbosa; spring cress
Hypernyms ("spring 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)
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