peppergrass

English

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; pepperwort.
   • 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 common pillwort of Europe (Pilularia globulifera).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “peppergrass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)