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peppergrass

noun

Etymology

From pepper + grass.

  1. inherited from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *grasą✻ — “grass”
  3. inherited from *gras✻
  4. inherited from græs
  5. inherited from gras
  6. formed as peppergrass — “pepper + grass”

Definitions

  1. Any of the pungent herbs of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden…

    Any of the pungent herbs of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum

    • Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
    • To this group belong feeds such as: Silage, alfalfa hay, turnips, kale, apples, potatoes, beet pulp, beet tops, rape, cabbage; and also weeds such as garlic, scaleweed, dog-fennel, tarweed, peppergrass, wild mustard, and others.

  2. The pillwort, or European pillwort (Pilularia globulifera).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at peppergrass. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at peppergrass. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at peppergrass

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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