Associations to the word «Lepidium»

Wiktionary

LEPIDIUM, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Brassicaceae   — the peppergrasses.
LEPIDIUM SATIVUM, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Brassicaceae   — garden cress.

Dictionary definition

LEPIDIUM, noun. Cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats