cress vs mouse-ear cress

mouse-ear cress vs cress

cress and mouse-ear cress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cress	Yes	No	No	No
mouse-ear cress	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mouse-ear cress is a hyponym of cress; that is, mouse-ear cress 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
mouse-ear cress: a small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described

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

cress (noun)	mouse-ear cress (noun)
pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs	a small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described
any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste

Difference between cress and mouse-ear cress

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