Definitions for cress

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Spelling: [kres]
IPA: /krɛs/

Cress is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in cress (cerss).

Definitions for cress

noun

  1. any of various plants of the mustard family, especially the watercress, having pungent-tasting leaves often used for salad and as a garnish.
  2. any of various similar plants.

Origin of cress

before 900; Middle English cresse, Old English cress(a), cresse; cognate with Dutch kers, German Kresse

Examples for cress

Serve on platter with meat, garnished with cress or parsley.

cress, thou wilt not do anything to Sir Richard of Gloucester?

Name from , applied by Dioscorides to some cress; meaning unknown.

Serve cold, cut in thin slices and garnished with parsley or cress.

No cress could she find, so she thought she would turn back and go home.

cress is used in salads, to which it imparts a pleasant pungency.

cress, Romaine, or bleached chicory may be used in place of lettuce.

In the winter the ditches are flooded to protect the cress from frost.

When this is not procurable, cress makes an attractive border to a salad.

This is a variety of cress, of quick growth, used as lettuce.

Word Value for cress
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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