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slovo definícia cress (encz) cress,řeřicha n: Zdeněk Brož Cress (gcide) Cress \Cress\ (kr[e^]s), n.; pl. Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. [1913 Webster] Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the {Nasturtium officinale}. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. [1913 Webster] To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Bitter cress. See under Bitter. Not worth a cress, or "not worth a kers." a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a curse." --Skeat. [1913 Webster] cress (wn) cress n 1: any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste [syn: cress, {cress plant}] 2: pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs

podobné slovo definícia chamois cress (encz) chamois cress, n: common garden cress (encz) common garden cress, n: common watercress (encz) common watercress, n: coral-root bittercress (encz) coral-root bittercress, n: cress (encz) cress,řeřicha n: Zdeněk Brož cress green (encz) cress green, adj: cress plant (encz) cress plant, n: cresset (encz) cresset,světelný koš Zdeněk Brož cresson (encz) cresson, adj: early winter cress (encz) early winter cress, n: field pennycress (encz) field pennycress, n: garden cress (encz) garden cress, n: garden pepper cress (encz) garden pepper cress, n: great yellowcress (encz) great yellowcress, n: indian cress (encz) Indian cress, land cress (encz) land cress, n: marsh cress (encz) marsh cress, n: meadow cress (encz) meadow cress, n: mountain watercress (encz) mountain watercress, n: mouse-ear cress (encz) mouse-ear cress, n: pennycress (encz) pennycress, n: purple cress (encz) purple cress, n: rock cress (encz) rock cress, n: rockcress (encz) rockcress, n: rocket cress (encz) rocket cress, n: spring cress (encz) spring cress, n: stone cress (encz) stone cress, n: stonecress (encz) stonecress, n: tower cress (encz) tower cress, n: watercress (encz) watercress,řeřicha n: Zdeněk Brož winter cress (encz) winter cress, n: yellow watercress (encz) yellow watercress, n: Bitter cress (gcide) Cress \Cress\ (kr[e^]s), n.; pl. Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. [1913 Webster] Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the {Nasturtium officinale}. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. [1913 Webster] To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Bitter cress. See under Bitter. Not worth a cress, or "not worth a kers." a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a curse." --Skeat. [1913 Webster]Bitter \Bit"ter\, a. [AS. biter; akin to Goth. baitrs, Icel. bitr, Dan., Sw., D., & G. bitter, OS. bittar, fr. root of E. bite. See Bite, v. t.] 1. Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes. [1913 Webster] 2. Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day. [1913 Webster] 3. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant. [1913 Webster] It is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. --Jer. ii. 19. [1913 Webster] 4. Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach. [1913 Webster] Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. --Col. iii. 19. [1913 Webster] 5. Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable. [1913 Webster] The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with hard bondage. --Ex. i. 14. [1913 Webster] Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd. (Bot.) See Colocynth. Bitter cress (Bot.), a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. Cardamine amara. Bitter earth (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia. Bitter principles (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics. Bitter salt, Epsom salts; magnesium sulphate. Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia. To the bitter end, to the last extremity, however calamitous. [1913 Webster] Syn: Acrid; sharp; harsh; pungent; stinging; cutting; severe; acrimonious. [1913 Webster] bittercress (gcide) bittercress \bit"ter*cress\ n. any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except in the Antarctic. Syn: bitter cress. [WordNet 1.5] cress green cresson watercress (gcide) colorful \colorful\ adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless. Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled}] Syn: colourful. [WordNet 1.5] 2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque] [WordNet 1.5] 3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome. Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn, reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful, blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary, canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored, earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green, dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender, lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel, brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey, honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.] Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5] Cresselle (gcide) Cresselle \Cres*selle"\ (kr?s-s?l"), n. [F. cr['e]celle rattle.] (Eccl.) A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent. [1913 Webster] Cresses (gcide) Cress \Cress\ (kr[e^]s), n.; pl. Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. [1913 Webster] Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the {Nasturtium officinale}. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. [1913 Webster] To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Bitter cress. See under Bitter. Not worth a cress, or "not worth a kers." a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a curse." --Skeat. [1913 Webster] Cresset (gcide) Cresset \Cres"set\ (kr?s"s?t), n. [OF. crasset, cresset, sort of lamp or torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F. creuset crucible, E. crucible.] 1. An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. [1913 Webster] Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. --Milton. [1913 Webster] As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 2. (Coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. --Knight. [1913 Webster] Cressy (gcide) Cressy \Cress"y\ (kr[e^]s"[y^]), a. Abounding in cresses. [1913 Webster] The cressy islets white in flower. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] dock-cress (gcide) Nipplewort \Nip"ple*wort`\ (n[i^]p"p'l*w[^u]rt`), n. (Bot.) A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress. [1913 Webster]Dock-cress \Dock"-cress`\, n. (Bot.) Nipplewort. [1913 Webster] Dock-cress (gcide) Nipplewort \Nip"ple*wort`\ (n[i^]p"p'l*w[^u]rt`), n. (Bot.) A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress. [1913 Webster]Dock-cress \Dock"-cress`\, n. (Bot.) Nipplewort. [1913 Webster] Indian cress (gcide) Indian \In"di*an\ (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. Hindu.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk. [1913 Webster] 3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Indian bay (Bot.), a lauraceous tree (Persea Indica). Indian bean (Bot.), a name of the catalpa. Indian berry. (Bot.) Same as Cocculus indicus. Indian bread. (Bot.) Same as Cassava. Indian club, a wooden club, which is swung by the hand for gymnastic exercise. Indian cordage, cordage made of the fibers of cocoanut husk. Indian cress (Bot.), nasturtium. See Nasturtium, 2. Indian cucumber (Bot.), a plant of the genus Medeola (Medeola Virginica), a common in woods in the United States. The white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers. Indian currant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Symphoricarpus (Symphoricarpus vulgaris), bearing small red berries. Indian dye, the puccoon. Indian fig. (Bot.) (a) The banyan. See Banyan. (b) The prickly pear. Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially when on the war path. Indian fire, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light. Indian grass (Bot.), a coarse, high grass ({Chrysopogon nutans}), common in the southern portions of the United States; wood grass. --Gray. Indian hemp. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Apocynum ({Apocynum cannabinum}), having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark, whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is both emetic and cathartic in properties. (b) The variety of common hemp (Cannabis Indica), from which hasheesh is obtained. Indian mallow (Bot.), the velvet leaf ({Abutilon Avicenn[ae]}). See Abutilon. Indian meal, ground corn or maize. [U.S.] Indian millet (Bot.), a tall annual grass ({Sorghum vulgare}), having many varieties, among which are broom corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It is called also Guinea corn. See Durra. Indian ox (Zool.), the zebu. Indian paint. See Bloodroot. Indian paper. See India paper, under India. Indian physic (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus Gillenia (Gillenia trifoliata, and {Gillenia stipulacea}), common in the United States, the roots of which are used in medicine as a mild emetic; -- called also American ipecac, and bowman's root. --Gray. Indian pink. (Bot.) (a) The Cypress vine (Ipom[oe]a Quamoclit); -- so called in the West Indies. (b) See China pink, under China. Indian pipe (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb ({Monotropa uniflora}), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods. --Gray. Indian poke (Bot.), a plant usually known as the {white hellebore} (Veratrum viride). Indian pudding, a pudding of which the chief ingredients are Indian meal, milk, and molasses. Indian purple. (a) A dull purple color. (b) The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and black. Indian red. (a) A purplish red earth or pigment composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the Persian Gulf. Called also Persian red. (b) See Almagra. Indian rice (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See Rice. Indian shot (Bot.), a plant of the genus Canna ({Canna Indica}). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot. See Canna. Indian summer, in the United States, a period of warm and pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under Summer. Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia. Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Aris[ae]ma. Aris[ae]ma triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin. Indian wheat, maize or Indian corn. Indian yellow. (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but less pure than cadmium. (b) See Euxanthin. [1913 Webster] Mouse-ear cress (gcide) Mouse-ear \Mouse"-ear`\, n. (Bot.) (a) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus. (b) A European species of hawkweed ({Hieracium Pilosella}). [1913 Webster] Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and {Cerastium viscosum}). Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb ({Sisymbrium Thaliana}). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or obovate leaves, whence the name. [1913 Webster] Not worth a cress (gcide) Cress \Cress\ (kr[e^]s), n.; pl. Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. [1913 Webster] Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the {Nasturtium officinale}. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. [1913 Webster] To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Bitter cress. See under Bitter. Not worth a cress, or "not worth a kers." a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a curse." --Skeat. [1913 Webster]