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town cress

town cress noun: garden cress, or peppergrass.

Noun

town cress (uncountable)

  1. garden cress, or peppergrass.

Origin of town cress

From Middle English tonncresse, from Old English tuuncressa.

Questions about town cress

What does town cress mean?
Town cress means garden cress, or peppergrass.
What part of speech is town cress?
Town cress is a noun.

Words near town cress in the dictionary

  1. town clerks
  2. town council
  3. town councillor
  4. town councillors
  5. town councils
  6. town cress
  7. town crier
  8. town criers
  9. Town Crow
  10. town drunk
  11. town drunks

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