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Noun: American watercress
  1. Of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida
    - Belle Isle cress, early winter cress, land cress, American cress, Barbarea verna, Barbarea praecox
     
  2. Mat-forming perennial found in cold springs of the eastern United States
    - mountain watercress, Cardamine rotundifolia

Type of: scurvy grass, St. Barbara's herb, watercress, winter cress

Part of: Barbarea, genus Barbarea

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