water cress
Spicy salad leaf
Watercress is a peppery-flavored leafy green that grows in shallow water or wet soil.
It's eaten raw in salads and sandwiches or cooked briefly in soups.
The small, round leaves have a sharp, slightly bitter taste that intensifies when the plant flowers.
Also spelled as one word: watercress.
- watercressPeppery aquatic salad plant
- pepperyHaving sharp, hot flavor
- saladCold dressed vegetables
- tea sandwichCrustless, delicate party snack
- egg saladMashed boiled poultry product
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flavor intensity
water cressiceberg lettuce
Compact, pale salad green
butter lettuce · romaine lettuce · lettuce · spinach · cabbage
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