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lamb's cress

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English

Syllables
lam-b's cress
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

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

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Usage

Inflected Forms

lamb's cresses (plural) lambscress (alternative) land cress (alternative) landcress (alternative)

Synonyms

hairy bittercress

Questions

What does lamb's cress mean?
An annual or biennial species of plant (Cardamine hirsuta) in the family Brassicaceae that is edible as a salad green.
Where does lamb's cress come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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