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watercressed

adj

Etymology

From watercress + -ed.

  1. inherited from water cresse
  2. suffixed as watercressed — “watercress + ed”

Definitions

  1. Adorned or flavored with watercress.

    • Bright, laughing streams, moving over their gravel beds and drowned ledges, fed by watercressed springs from under towering walls. The Mississippi and our other senior rivers are very solemn, and take themselves very seriously.
    • Sandwiches in shadow. Row upon dewy row; serried ranks of cheese and cucumber, and watercressed egg, and mustardy ham.

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