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cress

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"Peppery salad green"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kɹɛs/Part of speech nounSorted cerssStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs

Word origin

From Middle English cresse, crasse, from Old English cressa, cærse (“cress”), from Proto-West Germanic *krassjō, from Proto-Germanic *krasjô (“cress”). Cognate with West Frisian kers (“cress”), Dutch kers (“cress”), German Kresse (“cress”), Danish karse (“cress”), Swedish krasse (“cress”), Icelandic krassi (“cress”).

Used in a sentence

  • Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.
  • Back in 2011, a 9-year-old named Milo Cress found it odd that the restaurants he would go to with his mom in Burlington, Vermont, would automatically serve drinks with a straw, whether or not their customer wanted one.

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