Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various plants of the genus Lepidium of the mustard family, having small whitish flowers and pungent leaves, and including the garden cress.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any plant of the genus Lepidium.
  • noun The pillwort, Pilularia globulifera. See Pilularia and pillwort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Any herb of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; -- called also pepperwort. All the species have a pungent flavor.
  • noun The common pillwort of Europe (Pilularia globulifera). See pillwort.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of the pungent herbs of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; pepperwort.
  • noun The common pillwort of Europe (Pilularia globulifera).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun annual herb used as salad green and garnish

Etymologies

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pepper +‎ grass

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Examples

  • Yelas finished third in the FLW tournament on Florida's Lake Okeechobee last year by fishing small areas where bulrushes, peppergrass, and hydrilla grew together.

    Secrets of the Pros: The Visionary 2003

  • They climbed past the neighborhood into a nameless gulch, huffing and wheezing through the sagebrush in their weight-tortured Reeboks, wading through prairie star, peppergrass, sunflower, the gossamery spores of plants kicked free and floating.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • They climbed past the neighborhood into a nameless gulch, huffing and wheezing through the sagebrush in their weight-tortured Reeboks, wading through prairie star, peppergrass, sunflower, the gossamery spores of plants kicked free and floating.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • They climbed past the neighborhood into a nameless gulch, huffing and wheezing through the sagebrush in their weight-tortured Reeboks, wading through prairie star, peppergrass, sunflower, the gossamery spores of plants kicked free and floating.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • There was no one thing on the island upon which we could in the least degree rely, except the peppergrass, and of that the supply was precarious, and not much relished without some other food.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Other pretty garnishes which are easily obtained are corn salad, peppergrass, mustard, fennel, and young leaves of carrot.

    Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

  • Postoria, Cochleana, de Pisa, horseradish and peppergrass, and made ready for larger ventures.

    The Bloom of Monticello 1926

  • These herb stalks above the snow, the corymbose heads of the yarrow, the spikes of the self-heal, the crosiers of the golden-rod, the panicles of the asters, the racemes of the Indian tobacco, the knotted threads of the blue vervain and the plantain, the miniature mandarin temples of the peppergrass -- all these have shed, or are shedding, myriads of seeds to be silently sepulchred under the snow until earth's easter April mornings.

    Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • There were strawberry beds and raspberry rooms, patches of lettuce and peppergrass, long rows of corn with trailing bean-vines in their rear, hedges of peas and string beans, and young trees set out in different places, like sentinels of love and care reaching toward the overarching sky.

    The Harvest of Years Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 1871

  • Cottonwood and pine grow intermixed in the river bottoms musquitoes extreemely troublesome. we expect to meet with the Minnetares and are therefore much on our guard both day and night. the bois rague in blume. - saw the common small blue flag and peppergrass. the southern wood and two other speceis of shrub are common in the prarie of knobs. preserved specemines of them. passed several old indian encampments of brush lodges.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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