cress vs bittercress

bittercress vs cress

cress and bittercress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cress	Yes	No	No	No
bittercress	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bittercress is a hyponym of cress; that is, bittercress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cress:

cress: any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
bittercress: any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic

Other hyponyms of cress include watercress, Arabidopsis thaliana, mouse-ear cress, Arabidopsis lyrata, rock cress, rockcress, Arabis glabra, tower cress, tower mustard, Turritis glabra, scurvy grass, St. Barbara's herb, winter cress, bitter cress, Cochlearia officinalis, common scurvy grass, scurvy grass, common garden cress, garden pepper cress, Lepidium sativum, pepper grass, pepperwort.

cress (noun)	bittercress (noun)
pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs	any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic
any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste

Difference between cress and bittercress

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