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wintercress

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
win-ter-cress
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the genus Barbarea of small herbaceous biennial or perennial flowering plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From winter + cress.

Usage

Inflected Forms

wintercresses (plural) winter cress (alternative) winter-cress (alternative)

Questions

What does wintercress mean?
Any of the genus Barbarea of small herbaceous biennial or perennial flowering plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals.
Where does wintercress come from?
From winter + cress.

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