Garden cress
Cress (''Lepidium sativum''), sometimes referred to as garden cress (or curly cress) to distinguish it from Cress (disambiguation), similar plants also referred to as cress (from old Germanic ''cresso'' which means sharp, spicy), is a rather fas ...
, ''Lepidium sativum''
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Land cress
''Barbarea verna'' is a biennial herb in the family Brassicaceae. Common names include land cress, American cress, bank cress, black wood cress, Belle Isle cress, Bermuda cress, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy cress, creasy greens, ...
, ''Barbarea verna''
* Watercress, ''Nasturtium officinale''
Other plants not usually cultivated or consumed:
* Bittercress, ''Cardamine'' species, or others
* Gladecress, ''Leavenworthia'' species
* Hoary cress, ''Lepidium draba''
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Peppercress
''Lepidium'' is a genus of plants in the mustard/cabbage family, Brassicaceae. The genus is widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.Rockcress, several genera
* Swinecress or wartcress, ''Coronopus''
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Thale cress
''Arabidopsis thaliana'', the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa. ''A. thaliana'' is considered a weed; it is found along the shoulders of roads and in disturbed land.
A winter a ...
, ''Arabidopsis thaliana''
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Winter cress
''Barbarea'' (winter cress or yellow rocket) is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in southern Europe and southwe ...
Cress Williams
Cress Williams (born July 26, 1970) is an American actor, known for his roles in ''Prison Break'' and '' Close to Home''. His most recent roles include Mayor Lavon Hayes on The CW series ''Hart of Dixie'' and the title character on The CW's ''Bla ...
(born 1968), African American film and television actor
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Curt Cress
Curtis Cress (born 11 August 1952), known by his stage name Curt Cress, is a German musician, singer and songwriter.
Life and work
Curt Cress began his career in 1965 in Hanau with the band Load. Later also in Hanau he played with the bands I ...
(born 1952), German drummer and composer
* Frances Cress Welsing (1935–2016), African American psychiatrist
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Fred Cress
Frederick Harold Cress (10 July 1938 – 14 October 2009) was a British painter who migrated to Australia and won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Stanley Beard, John Beard.
Cress was born in Pune, Poona, British Raj, but w ...
(1938–2009), Australian artist
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George Oscar Cress
George Oscar Cress (18 September 1862 – 8 May 1954) was a United States military officer. He mostly served in various departmental and staff capacities and also taught as a professor of Military Science and Tactics.
Early life and education
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(1862–1954), United States military officer
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Paul H. Cress
Paul H. Cress (1939–2004) was a Canadian computer scientist.
He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of progra ...
(1939–2004), Canadian computer scientist
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Roman William Cress
Roman William Cress (born August 2, 1977, in Kaven) is a track athlete from the Marshall Islands. He was born to an American father and Marshallese mother. Cress attended South High School and participated in Track as a student. He then attende ...
(born 1977), Marshallese athlete
Other uses
* ''Cress'' (novel), a novel by Marissa Meyer
* CRESS: Centre for Research in Social Simulation, funded by
Nigel Gilbert
Geoffrey Nigel Gilbert (born 21 March 1950) is a British sociologist and a pioneer in the use of agent-based models in the social sciences. He is the founder and director of the ''Centre for Research in Social Simulation'' ( University of Sur ...
* Cress, the name of the fictional Moon Kingdom in the 1997 platform game Klonoa: Door to Phantomile for the PlayStation
* Cress (''Pokémon''), a character from the ''Pokemon'' series