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lepidium.

Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts.

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noun/ləˈpɪ.di.əm/General-American
  1. Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from translingual Lepidium, from Latin lepidium and Ancient Greek λεπίδιον (lepídion, literally “little scale”), diminutive of λεπίς (lepís, “scale, flake”).

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