winter cress
- noun
:
berro de invierno
- I love adding winter cress to my salads.
Examples
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A fresh salad made with winter cress tastes especially good in early spring.
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Winter cress is a hardy vegetable that can be harvested throughout the colder months.
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Gardeners often plant winter cress for its nutritious leaves during the off-season.
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The winter cress in my garden is thriving.
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In winter, I like to add winter cress to my salads for a fresh flavor.
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The gardener grows winter cress to use in her delicious winter salads.
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During the cold months, winter cress provides a rich source of greens for our meals.
Synonyms
A small wild leafy plant called winter cress with yellow flowers often eaten in salads
A leafy plant with yellow flowers that people grow for spicy winter salads
A leafy plant grown for salad greens with a peppery taste
A small leafy plant with peppery, edible leaves used in salads
A leafy garden plant with yellow flowers and peppery leaves used in salads
A common wild plant with small yellow flowers that grows in fields and gardens
A harmful plant with bright yellow flowers that often grows where people do not want it
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'winter' (the cold season) with 'cress' (a salad/leafy plant): it refers to a type of cress associated with or used in winter. This straightforward noun+noun compounding pattern is common in English plant names and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the term.
Etymology
Winter cress may come from the simple image of a cress that stays green and edible in cold months. The parts winter and cress show this literal idea, so the name means 'a leafy green you can harvest in winter'.
