Noun: cress
| Singular | cress |
| Plural | cresses |
Sample Sentences
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Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 70:]
Nouns inflected like cress
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English cresse, crasse, from Old English cressa, cærse (“cress”), from Proto-West Germanic *krassjō, from Proto-Germanic *krasjô (“cress”). Cognate with West Frisian kers (“cress”), Dutch kers (“cress”), German Kresse (“cress”), Danish karse (“cress”), Swedish krasse (“cress”), Icelandic krassi (“cress”). See: Middle English Nouns '
cresse', Old English Nouns '
cressa', Dutch Nouns '
kers', German Nouns '
Kresse', Danish Nouns '
karse', Swedish Nouns '
krasse', Icelandic Nouns '
krassi'.
Verbs referencing "cress"
German Nouns
Kresse, Russian Nouns
кресс.