cress plant vs Arabidopsis thaliana

Arabidopsis thaliana vs cress plant

cress plant and Arabidopsis thaliana both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cress plant	Yes	No	No	No
Arabidopsis thaliana	Yes	No	No	No

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

cress plant: any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
Arabidopsis thaliana: 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 plant include watercress, 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, bittercress, Cochlearia officinalis, common scurvy grass, scurvy grass, common garden cress, garden pepper cress, Lepidium sativum, pepper grass, pepperwort.

cress plant (noun)	Arabidopsis thaliana (noun)
any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste	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

Difference between cress plant and Arabidopsis thaliana

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