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AMERICAN WATERCRESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does American watercress mean?

• AMERICAN WATERCRESS (noun)
The noun AMERICAN WATERCRESS has 2 senses:

1. mat-forming perennial found in cold springs of the eastern United States
2. of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida

Familiarity information: AMERICAN WATERCRESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AMERICAN WATERCRESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Mat-forming perennial found in cold springs of the eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American watercress; Cardamine rotundifolia; mountain watercress

Hypernyms ("American watercress" is a kind of...):

watercress (any of several water-loving cresses)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American cress; land cress; early winter cress; Belle Isle cress; Barbarea verna; Barbarea praecox; American watercress

Hypernyms ("American watercress" is a kind of...):

scurvy grass; St. Barbara's herb; winter cress (any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses; widely cultivated for winter salad)

Holonyms ("American watercress" is a part of...):

Barbarea; genus Barbarea (biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress)

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