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🥗 A salad herb 🌱 A wetland plant
pepperwort

pepperwort

1 9.8
A small herb with peppery leaves used raw in salads
  • noun
  • /ˈpɛpərˌwɜrt/
: berro
  • She sprinkled fresh pepperwort over the salad to add a spicy kick.

Examples

  • The chef added chopped pepperwort to the sandwich for extra flavor.

  • The chef garnished the dish with pepperwort.

  • Pepperwort is often used as a garnish in contemporary cuisine.

  • I added fresh pepperwort to the salad.

  • The chef sprinkled pepperwort over the dish to enhance its peppery flavor.

  • For a delicious salad, she added fresh pepperwort as a zesty garnish.

  • I love the taste of pepperwort in my salads during the summer months.

Synonyms

peppergrass
vspepperwort
  • US
1 6.0

A plant with small peppery leaves often used in salads

focuses on cultivated salad use rather than wild field presence
Lepidium sativum
vspepperwort
  • Specialized
1 7.9

A small herb with peppery leaves used in salads and as a garnish

names the general genus herb rather than that single species
garden pepper cress
vspepperwort
7.0

A small plant with spicy leaves used to add flavor to salads and decorate food

refers to related annual herbs in the same group not only this cultivated type
common garden cress
vspepperwort
3.2

A small fast-growing herb with peppery leaves used in salads and as a garnish

emphasizes the general genus group rather than fast-growing variety
pepper grass
vspepperwort
  • US
4.8

A small herb with spicy leaves used in salads or as a garnish

is the broader genus term used for several similar salad herbs

How Peppery

watercress
6 2.6
pepperwort
1 9.8
arugula
  • US
21 5.7
lettuce
102 1.0

Surface Forms

pepperwort singular
pepperworts plural

Morphology

pepperwort = pepper + wort (transparent) = pepper + wort

The compound clearly denotes a plant ('wort') with a peppery quality ('pepper'), matching the salad-herb sense.

Etymology

Pepperwort comes from pepper and wort, where wort means 'plant' or 'herb', just like in St. John's wort. As a salad herb it has a peppery taste, so the name simply means 'pepper plant' and helps you remember it is used as a spicy garnish.