What does "wintercress" mean?

Any of the genus Barbarea of small herbaceous biennial or perennial flowering plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals.

Wintercress

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Noun

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Any of the genus Barbarea of small herbaceous biennial or perennial flowering plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From winter + cress.

Related phrases

flowering plant

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