How to Use cress in a Sentence

cress

noun
  • Thale cress was planted in moon soil, and the good news was all of the seeds sprouted.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • The radishes, cress and rye all grew to a point where seeds could be harvested.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Fold in nearly all of the hazelnuts and cress, then transfer to a platter.
    Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
  • New to the market this week from Rempel Family Farm is kale and cress.
    Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2018
  • Purple cress is just about to bloom at Hubbard Valley Park in Seville.
    cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
  • Layer roast beef and cress on bottom, then top with pickled onions.
    The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2018
  • But by the sixth day, the plants in lunar soil began to grow differently than the control group of thale cress.
    Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • In the Salk study, scientists worked with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • The plant is also known as thale cress, which can produce small white flowers and is native to Eurasia and Africa.
    Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • Whitetop, or Hoary cress, is a very tough perennial weed that spreads by rhizomes and seeds.
    Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
  • The cress doesn’t grow very well after it’s used up the nutrients that all seeds contain, explains Ralph Fritsche.
    Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • Scientists have even sent the thale cress to the International Space Station and the moon.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2021
  • Striking a balance between tender and chewy, the steak tips come with grilled scallions, some peppery cress, and fries.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • But new research shows that something can grow in regolith: a weed called mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).
    Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • Cold-hardy flowers include snowdrops, hellebores and alpine rock cress.
    Jackalyn Beck, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • There were other challenges to getting those cress seedlings to germinate.
    Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • The bon bon-like rounds of liver are coated in a mandarin gelee, accented with coconut cream and a scattering of winter cress.
    Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The moth trinity is more closely related to similar genes in silkworms, while the plant ones are a closer match for genes in the mustard cress.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2011
  • To make this discovery, the researchers looked at what happens when dodders infect a kind of cress—Arabidopsis thaliana.
    Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The researchers duplicated their work in thale cress, a flowering plant.
    Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
  • Cheatgrass, Canada thistle, hoary cress and emerald ash borer complete the top 5.
    Phil Drake, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Kentucky glade cress grows only in parts of Jefferson and Bullitt counties.
    James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Using genes from wine grapes that cause the fruit to become fleshy and ripen, the researchers have increased the succulence of mouse-ear cress, creating leaves that store more water than normal.
    Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is popular in biology research.
    Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2014
  • This pasta also goes extremely well with a peppery mix of arugula or cress with bitter chicories that will stand up to the extreme savoriness of this short rib ragu.
    Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Some of the courses include poached salmon with sauce mousseline, compressed cucumber and dill; duet of duck and squab with brûléed Calvados apples and cress; and gilded eclair.
    Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Then Perricone had to get off the phone but promised to send me immediately the recipe for a light, luminous cream that anoints the simple beef, salt, crouton, and cress mixture at Manfreds.
    Tamar Adler, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2019
  • But despite the fact that scientists have scrutinized the plant, Aribidopsis thalania, since the 16th century, the thale cress still manages to surprise.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2021
  • The scientists filled each well with a gram of lunar soil, added nutrients and water, and poked in a few seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • Dutch cress grower Rob Baan has enlisted high-tech helpers to tackle a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that produce caterpillars that can chew up his crops.
    Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021

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