Cress

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Cress or CRESS may refer to one or more of the following:

Plants

Plants cultivated for their edible leaves:

• Garden cress, Lepidium sativum
• Land cress, Barbarea verna
• Watercress, Nasturtium officinale

Other plants not usually cultivated or consumed:

• Bittercress, Cardamine species, or others
• Gladecress, Leavenworthia species
• Hoary cress, Lepidium draba
• Peppercress, Lepidium species
• Rockcress, several genera
• Swinecress or wartcress, Coronopus
• Thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana
• Winter cress, Barbarea
• Yellowcress, several genera

People

• Cress Williams (born 1968), African American film and television actor
• Curt Cress (born 1952), German drummer and composer
• Frances Cress Welsing (1935–2016), African American psychiatrist
• Fred Cress (1938–2009), Australian artist
• George Oscar Cress (1862–1954), United States military officer
• Paul H. Cress (1939–2004), Canadian computer scientist
• Roman William Cress (born 1977), Marshallese athlete

Other uses

• 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
• 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

See also

• Cres (disambiguation)
• Kress (disambiguation)

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