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Watercress

noun

Any of several water-loving cresses.

Cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams.

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... is for parsley, which is used in restaurants and hotels more extensively as a garnish than any other herb. In this capacity it ranks about equal with watercress and lettuce, which both find their chief uses as salads. As a flavoring agent it is probably less used than sage, but more than any of the other herbs. It is chiefly employed in dressings with mild meats such as chicken, turkey, venison, veal, with baked ...

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

... Downs spring clear sparkling streams; rain from heaven purified still further by being filtered through a thousand feet of chalk; fringed with purple Loosestrife and Willowherb, starred with white Water Ranunculuses, or rich Watercress, while every now and then a brown water rat rustles in the grasses at the edge, and splashes into the water, or a pink speckled ...

— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock

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