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Definitions: Watercress |
WatercressAdjective1. Of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green. Noun1. Any of several water-loving cresses. 2. Cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "watercress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1821. (references) |
Synonyms: WatercressSynonyms: cress green (adj), cresson (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Watercress |
| English words defined with "watercress": American watercress ♦ common watercress ♦ green mayonnaise ♦ Lorenzo dressing ♦ mountain watercress ♦ sauce verte ♦ yellow watercress. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Watercress Girl (1973) Watercress (1980) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | There is a butcher block cutting board on a white tablecloth. On the table are peapods, purple cabbage, cherry tomatoes, watercress, carrots, cauliflower and radishes. On the cutting board is a red pepper and an orange paring knife. In front of the board is a grey and white plaid napkin. See also AV-3905.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| "Watercress" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.69% of the time. "Watercress" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.69% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.08% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.23% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "watercress": american watercress ♦ common watercress ♦ cress green cresson watercress ♦ mountain watercress ♦ yellow watercress. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "watercress": watercress-flavoured. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
watercress | 110 |
soup watercress | 19 |
the watercress soup diet | 9 |
line watercress | 8 |
recipe watercress | 6 |
growing watercress | 6 |
picture watercress | 5 |
salad watercress | 4 |
recipe soup watercress | 4 |
watercress herb | 4 |
plant watercress | 3 |
sandwich watercress | 2 |
diet watercress | 2 |
banquet watercress | 2 |
grow watercress | 2 |
fertilization watercress | 2 |
endive nasturtium olive sandwich sauce scallop soup watercress | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "watercress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lakërishtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نبات البقلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кресон (cress), крес, поерч. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 水田芥. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | řeřicha (cress, water cress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tykskulpet brøndkarse (water cress), broendkarse (water cress), brøndkarse (water cress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | witte waterkers (true watercress), waterkers (water cress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | akvokreso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vesikrassi (water cress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cresson d'eau (water cress), cresson de fontaine (water cress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Brunnenkresse (nasturtium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vizitorma, vízitorma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | vætukarsi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crescione di fonte (water cress), crescione acquatico (water cress), crescione (cress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | burley frangagh (common cornsalad, cornsalad, Iceland watercress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maori | waata-kirihi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atercressway agriões-de-água (water cress), agriões-das-fontes (water cress), agriões (water cress), agrião de água (water cress), agrião das fontes (water cress), agrião (cress). (various references) кресс водяной. (various references) potočarka (nasturtium). (various references) berro (cress). (various references) vattenkrasse. (various references) su teresi. (various references) водяний крес. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | NASTURTIUM OFFICINALE, Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum, sisymbrium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "watercress": watercresses. (additional references) | |
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"Watercress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Waterbratz, watercrest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "watercress" (pronounced wô"terkre's) |
| 3 | -r e' s | address, headdress, letterpress, overdress, progress. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-r-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: asserter, caresser, caterers, cateress, cerastes, creasers, reassert, recrates, retraces, screwers, serrates, setscrew, strewers, swearers, sweaters, terraces, terrases, waterers, wresters. | |
-3 letters: actress, arrests, careers, carters, casters, caterer, cerates, crasser, craters, creaser, creases, creates, cresset, easters, ecartes, ectases, erasers, rasters, recasts, recrate, reseats, resects, resters, retears, retrace, scarers, screwer, searest, seaters, secrets, serrate, starers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-r-r-s-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: watercourses, watercresses. | |
+4 letters: weathercasters. | |
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