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watercressed en · ADJ

Etymology

From watercress + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Adorned or flavored with watercress.
    • Bright, laughing streams, moving over their gravel beds and drowned ledges, fed by watercressed springs from under towering walls. The Mississippi and our other senior rivers are very solemn, and take themselves very seriously. 2008, John Madson, Michael McIntosh, Out Home, page 69:
    • Sandwiches in shadow. Row upon dewy row; serried ranks of cheese and cucumber, and watercressed egg, and mustardy ham. 2011, Paul Golding, Abomination:

Synonyms

watercressy