English > bittercress: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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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| Synonym | bitter cress |
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| Member of | Cardamine, genus Cardamine | bittercress, bitter cress |
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| Narrower | coral-root bittercress, coralroot, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera | European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock / rootstock |
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| crinkleroot, crinkle-root, crinkle root, pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla | North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots |
| lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensis | A bitter cress of Europe and America |
| purple cress, Cardamine douglasii | small perennial herb of cooler regions / regions of North America with racemose purple flowers |
| spring cress, Cardamine bulbosa | small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America |
| Broader | cress, cress plant | Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste |
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