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Noun: pepperwort  'pe-pu(r),wurt
  1. Annual herb used as salad green and garnish
    "pepperwort adds a peppery kick to sandwiches";
    - common garden cress, garden peppergrass, pepper grass, Lepidium sativum
     
  2. Any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets
    "The pepperwort's four-leaf structure resembled a lucky clover";
    - clover fern

Derived forms: pepperworts

Type of: aquatic fern, cress, cress plant, water fern

Part of: genus Lepidium, genus Marsilea, Lepidium, Marsilea

Encyclopedia: Pepperwort