0 any of various plants with small, green leaves, used especially in salads:
egg and cress sandwiches
Thirdly, the particular valley served by this railway is the centre of the cress-farming industry.
It is very widely employed in industry, particularly in the agricultural industry, in cress growing and trout breeding.
He will see whether the land is really what it seems to be, and not a little urban land dressed up with mustard and cress.
It was that if you exempted agricultural land such plots as this would be sown with mustard and cress, and would become agricultural land at once.
Cress has to be cut and marketed within 24 hours.
The abandoned cress beds became overgrown with reeds and the site is now managed to preserve a wide variety of habitats.
Less conspicuous, but no less rare, are crinkled hairgrass, satin brome and southern hairy rock cress.
Garden cress is genetically related to watercress and mustard, sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma.