peppergrass

English

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Etymology

From pepper +‎ grass.

Noun

peppergrass (countable and uncountable, plural peppergrasses)

1. Any of the pungent herbs of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum

   Synonyms: pepperwort, peppercress

   • 1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:

     Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.

   • 1951, Practical Butter Manufacture, a Manual for Buttermakers, page 25:

     To this group belong feeds such as: Silage, alfalfa hay, turnips, kale, apples, potatoes, beet pulp, beet tops, rape, cabbage; and also weeds such as garlic, scaleweed, dog-fennel, tarweed, peppergrass, wild mustard, and others.

2. The pillwort, or European pillwort (Pilularia globulifera).

References

• “peppergrass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.