Noun: pepperwort 'pe-pu(r),wurt
- Annual herb used as salad green and garnish
"pepperwort adds a peppery kick to sandwiches";
- common garden cress, garden peppergrass, pepper grass, Lepidium sativum
- 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