Nasturtium officinale
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From Middle English water cresse , water-kresse , watercrasse , water cars , equivalent to water + cress . Cognate with West Frisian waterkers ( “ watercress ” ) , Dutch waterkers ( “ watercress ” ) , Swedish vattenkrasse ( “ watercress ” ) .
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watercress (countable and uncountable , plural watercresses )
A perennial European herb , Nasturtium officinale , that grows in freshwater streams ; used in salads and as a garnish .
A similar plant, Nasturtium microphyllum .
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Nasturtium officinale
Arabic: قُرَّة f ( qurra ) , حُرْف (ar) m ( ḥurf )
Aragonese: berro m
Armenian: ջրկոտեմ (hy) ( ǰrkotem ) , հորփ կոտեմ ( horpʻ kotem )
Middle Armenian: ջրկոտեմ ( ǰrkotem )
Bulgarian: кресон m ( kreson ) , пореч m ( poreč )
Catalan: creixen (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 西洋菜 ( sai1 joeng4 coi3 )
Mandarin: 西洋菜 (zh) ( xīyángcài ) , 豆瓣菜 (zh) ( dòubàncài )
Czech: potočnice f , řeřicha (cs) f , potočnice lékařská
Danish: tykskulpet Brøndkarse
Dutch: witte waterkers (nl) f
Esperanto: akvokreso
Finnish: vesikrassi (fi)
French: cresson de fontaine (fr) m
Galician: agrón (gl) m , berro (gl) m
German: Brunnenkresse (de) f , Echte Brunnenkresse f , Wasserkresse f
Hebrew: גרגיר הנחלים
Hungarian: vízitorma (hu)
Irish: biolar m
Japanese: クレソン ( kureson ) , オランダガラシ ( orandagarashi )
Kabuverdianu: algriom
Korean: 물냉이 ( mullaeng'i ) , 크레송 ( keuresong )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کووزەڵە ( kûzelle )
Latin: nasturtium n
Malay: selada air
Maori: kōwhitiwhiti , wātakirihi
Navajo: táłkááʼ dah yikał
Norman: cresson m
Persian: ترتیزک (fa) ( tartizak ) , شاهی (fa) ( šâhi )
Polish: rukiew (pl) f , rukiew wodna (pl) f
Portuguese: agrião (pt) m
Romanian: năsturel (ro) m , creson (ro) n , cardama (ro) f
Russian: жеру́ха (ru) f ( žerúxa ) , водяно́й кре́сс m ( vodjanój kréss ) , брункре́сс m ( brunkréss )
Serbo-Croatian: drèzga (sh) f , derezga f ( Chakavian ) , pòtočārka (sh) f , dragušac (sh) m , grbač (sh) m ( obsolete ) , vodena kresa f
Slovak: žerucha (sk) f
Slovene: vodna kreša
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: studnina krjasa f
Upper Sorbian: lěkarska ropucha f
Spanish: berro (es) m
Swedish: källfräne , källkrasse c , vattenkrasse c
Tagalog: kangkong
Vietnamese: cải xoong
Welsh: berwr y dŵr f pl , berwr y ffynnon f pl
West Frisian: wyt wetterleppeltsje
Yiddish: וואַסערכריין m ( vaserkhreyn ) , זשערעכע f ( zherekhe )
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