Cress or CRESS may refer to one or more of the following:
Plants
Plants cultivated for their edible leaves:
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Garden cress
Cress (''Lepidium sativum''), sometimes referred to as garden cress (or curly cress) to distinguish it from similar plants also referred to as cress (from Old English ''cresse''), is a rather fast-growing, edible herb.
Garden cress is genetica ...
, ''Lepidium sativum''
*Land cress, ''
Barbarea verna
''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, poor man's cabbage, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy ...
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Watercress
Watercress or yellowcress (''Nasturtium officinale'') is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family, Brassicaceae.
Watercress is a rapidly growing perennial plant native to Eurasia. It is one of the oldest known leaf vegetabl ...
, ''Nasturtium officinale''
Other plants not usually cultivated or consumed:
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Bittercress, ''Cardamine'' species, or others
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Gladecress, ''Leavenworthia'' species
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Hoary cress, ''Lepidium draba''
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Peppercress, ''Lepidium'' species
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Rockcress, several genera
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Swinecress or wartcress, ''Coronopus''
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Thale cress
''Arabidopsis thaliana'', the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small plant from the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native to Eurasia and Africa. Commonly found along the shoulders of roads and in disturbed land, it is generally ...
, ''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 southwes ...
, ''Barbarea''
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Yellowcress, several genera
People
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Cress Williams
Cress Williams (born July 26, 1970) is an American actor, known for his roles in ''Prison Break'' and ''Close to Home (2005 TV series), Close to Home''. His most recent roles include Mayor Lavon Hayes on The CW Television Network, The CW series ' ...
(born 1968), African American film and television actor
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Curt Cress (born 1952), German drummer and composer
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Frances Cress Welsing
Frances Luella Cress Welsing (March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the pseudoscientific melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, ''The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Suprem ...
(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 Beard.
Cress was born in Poona, British Raj, but went to England with his p ...
(1938–2009), Australian artist
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George Oscar Cress (1862–1954), United States military officer
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Paul H. Cress (1939–2004), Canadian computer scientist
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Roman William Cress (born 1977), Marshallese athlete
Other uses
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''Cress'' (novel), a novel by Marissa Meyer
*CRESS: Centre for Research in Social Simulation, at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, 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 Surre ...
*Cress, the name of the fictional Moon Kingdom in the 1997 platform game
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile for the PlayStation
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Cress (''Pokémon''), a character from the ''Pokemon'' series
See also
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Cres (disambiguation)
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Kress (disambiguation)
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