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PRONUNCIATION OF WINTERCRESS

wintercress  [ˈwɪntəˌkrɛs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WINTERCRESS

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wintercress is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WINTERCRESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

wintercress

Barbarea

Barbarea is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in southern Europe and southwest Asia. They are small herbaceous biennial or perennial plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals.

Definition of wintercress in the English dictionary

The definition of wintercress in the dictionary is a bitter-tasting yellow-flowered perennial, Barbarea vulgaris, somewhat resembling mustard. Other definition of wintercress is a commercial hybrid, Rorippa × sterilis, between watercress and R. microphylla.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WINTERCRESS


address
əˈdrɛs
ancress
ˈænˌkrɛs
bittercress
ˈbɪtəˌkrɛs
compress
kəmˈprɛs
congress
ˈkɒŋɡrɛs
cress
krɛs
distress
dɪˈstrɛs
dress
drɛs
express
ɪkˈsprɛs
Flores
ˈflɔːrɛs
impress
ɪmˈprɛs
interesse
ˈɪntərɛs
pennycress
ˈpɛnɪˌkrɛs
Peres
ˈpɛrɛs
press
prɛs
progress
ˈprəʊɡrɛs
stress
strɛs
suppress
səˈprɛs
undress
ʌnˈdrɛs
watercress
ˈwɔːtəˌkrɛs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WINTERCRESS

winter season
winter sleep
winter solstice
winter sports
Winter War
winter wheat
winter wren
winter-like
winterberry
winterbourne
winterer
winterfed
winterfeed
wintergreen
winteriness
winterisation
winterise
winterish
winterization
winterize

WORDS THAT END LIKE WINTERCRESS

A-line dress
act of congress
actress
at the press
cocktail dress
contact address
garden cress
hoary cress
in progress
IP address
Member of Congress
mistress
mustard and cress
rock cress
rockcress
swine´s cress
the press
wart cress
winter cress
yellow cress

Synonyms and antonyms of wintercress in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wintercress» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WINTERCRESS

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The translations of wintercress from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wintercress» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

wintercress
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

wintercress
570 millions of speakers

English

wintercress
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

wintercress
380 millions of speakers
ar

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wintercress
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

wintercress
278 millions of speakers

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wintercress
270 millions of speakers

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wintercress
260 millions of speakers

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wintercress
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wintercress
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wintercress
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

wintercress
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

wintercress
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wintercress
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wintercress
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

wintercress
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हिवाळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

wintercress
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wintercress
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wintercress
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

wintercress
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wintercress
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

wintercress
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

wintercress
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

wintercress
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wintercress
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wintercress

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WINTERCRESS»

The term «wintercress» is normally little used and occupies the 125.879 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WINTERCRESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wintercress» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wintercress» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wintercress

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WINTERCRESS»

Discover the use of wintercress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wintercress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
DESCRIPTION - The distinctive thing about wintercress is that it grows vigorously during the warm days of winter and may be found, gathered, and eaten whenever the ground is free of snow. In fact, if you know where it is thriving, you can ...
Bradford Angier, 1974
2
Hedgerow: River Cottage Handbook
It is a pleasure to see the rosettes of dark, shiny green leaves of Wintercress amidst the barren landscape of January. Common Wintercress (B. vulgaris) is the most common of the four species of Barbarea in the British Isles, followed by the ...
John Wright, 2010
3
Edible Wild Plants
Barbarea stricta auct. non Andrz. • Campe barbarea (L.) W. Wight ex Piper • Campe stricta auct. non (Andrz.) W. Wight ex Piper Common Names: • Wintercress • Yellow rocket • Garden yellow rocket • Bittercress • Creasy greens An herbaceous ...
John Kallas, 2010
4
Gather Ye Wild Things: A Forager's Year
Settlers may have brought both wintercress and chickweed with them, or they may have found the familiar plants growing here when they came. Certainly they and natives who knew the plants knew of their uses too. They probably knew to ...
Susan Tyler Hitchcock, 1980
5
Weeds of California and Other Western States
Early wintercress (Barbarea verna) fruit base nearly equal to width of pedicel. J. M. DiToMaso Early wintercress (Barbarea verna) plant. J. M. DiToMaso Early wintercress (Barbarea verna) seeds. J. o'Brien Early wintercress (Barbarea verna ) ...
Joseph M. DiTomaso, Evelyn A. Healy, 2007
6
Wildflowers of the Eastern United States: An Introduction to ...
COM One of the “early yellows” along with dandelions—in contrast to most early- spring flowers, which are white or purplish—common wintercress continues blooming into summer, usually finishes by late June but occasionally flowers again ...
John Eastman, 2014
7
Handbook of Edible Weeds: Herbal Reference Library
Wintercress. (B. verna). and. Yellow. Rocket. {B. vulgaris). DESCRIPTION: Small winter annual, biennial, or rarely perennial herb, overwintering in a winter rosette (whorl of leaves arising at the ground level, with no obvious stem above ground,  ...
James A. Duke, 2000
8
Testing Farm Seeds in Home and School
Bitter wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris). Seeds light brown, broadly oblong, flattened, the two unevenly curved faces usually thickened at the center and sloping to the rounded margins; surface shows a somewhat indistinct network of fine ridges ...
Albina Frances Musil, 1942
9
Library of Congress Subject Headings
C9 (Botany)] UF American wintercress Barbarea praecox Barbarea уста Вс11е 151е cress Early cress Early winter cress Early wintercress Land cress Scurvy grass BT Yellowrockets Early's Invasion of Maryland, 1864 USE Maryland ...
Library of Congress, 2006
10
A Guide To Rocky Mountain Plants, Revised
Wintercress 1. Style 2—5mrn, beaklike; upper stem leaves entire to dentate. B. wigan's Bitter wintercress 1. Style 0.5-1mm, not beaklike; upper stern leaves lobed. B. ortboceras American wintercress (4) Camelim. False flax FALSE me, ...
Roger L. Williams, 2002

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WINTERCRESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wintercress is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Where the Wild things are
Cresses—namely pennycress, watercress, and wintercress—also grow abundantly around town, large patches can be found along the Waterford River. «The Independent News, Apr 15»
2
10 Foods You Can Still Get at the Farmers' Market in Winter
If that's not enough, winter often spawns microgreens such as sunflower, basil and cilantro, along with wintercress and watercress. A farmer near me grows ... «Paste Magazine, Jan 15»
3
Police ID pedestrian killed in Chesapeake car crash
Chesapeake police representative Ravi Sheth confirms that the accident happened around 5:30 a.m. at the intersection of River Birch Run and Wintercress Way. «WAVY-TV, Jan 15»
4
Edible Wild Plants
Bittercress and wintercress are both rich in vitamins C and A. Sorrel and bittercress salad with pickled, aromatic ox-eye daisy bud 'capers' (pictured) – a fresh, ... «The Argus, Dec 14»
5
Coles County Real Estate Transactions
30 Wintercress in Mattoon, Scott and Samantha Eggleston purchased from Sugarcreek Development, LLC, $32,500. — 3320 Grant Ave. in Mattoon, Donald ... «Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, Dec 13»
6
Fairfax home sales
Wintercress Lane, 7809-Steven J. Neuschulz to Justin H. Campbell, $380,750. Fairfax City. These sales data were recorded by the City of Fairfax Real Estate ... «Washington Post, Aug 13»
7
Sensible, Even on Scarlett Drive and Rhett Court
Another area uses plant names like Cornflower, Wood Sorrel and Wintercress Lanes, while a third has Native American names like Pawnee, Seneca and ... «New York Times, Jan 13»
8
'Becoming an outdoors-woman' is no solo feat
... Seymour's guidance, learned the tasty and nutritious parts of cattails, dandelions, service berries, stinging nettle, groundnut, peppergrass and wintercress. «Bangor Daily News, Sep 12»
9
Transform the yard into a butterfly haven
... azure enjoy blackberries, dandelions, violets and wintercress; great spangled fritillary are attracted to joe-pye weed, black-eyed Susan and purple coneflower; ... «Bangor Daily News, May 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Wintercress [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wintercress>. Apr 2024 ».
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