Word.ws English Dictionary

paracress

paracress noun: the plant Acmella oleracea, used for culinary purposes in northern Brazil and Madagascar.

paracress: the plant Acmella oleracea, used for culinary purposes in northern Brazil and Madagascar
Image: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

paracress (uncountable)

  1. The plant Acmella oleracea, used for culinary purposes in northern Brazil and Madagascar.

Synonyms of paracress

Forms of paracress

alternative formPará cress
alternative formPara cress

Origin of paracress

From Pará + cress.

Questions about paracress

What does paracress mean?
Paracress means the plant Acmella oleracea, used for culinary purposes in northern Brazil and Madagascar.
What part of speech is paracress?
Paracress is a noun.

Words near paracress in the dictionary

  1. paracrania
  2. paracranial
  3. paracranially
  4. paracranium
  5. paracresol
  6. paracress
  7. paracriminal
  8. paracrinal
  9. paracrinally
  10. paracrine
  11. paracrinely

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paracress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “paracress.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paracress. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.