lamb's cress

noun

Etymology

From Middle English *lambes-cresse, from Old English lambes cerse (“lamb's cress”), equivalent to lamb + -'s + cress.

  1. inherited from lambes cerse — “lamb's cress
  2. inherited from *lambes-cresse

Definitions

  1. An annual or biennial species of plant (Cardamine hirsuta) in the family Brassicaceae…

    An annual or biennial species of plant (Cardamine hirsuta) in the family Brassicaceae that is edible as a salad green.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lamb's cress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA