Converse of object

• grow: I might have managed a crop of mustard and cress grown on a flannel at some stage.

• use: You can trim the cress into all kinds of funny haircuts, or even use the cress in sandwhiches!

Preposition: in

• windowbox: Plus there is a big hole in my mustard and cress in the windowbox.

Adjective modifier

• hoary: Hoary cress is favored by growing winter cereals where it is able to get away early with little crop competition.

• hairy: Hairy bitter cress develops clusters of tiny flowers at the ends of the stem branches.

• bitter: Hairy bitter cress develops clusters of tiny flowers at the ends of the stem branches.

• American: I christened them last night by planting out American land cress, Little Gem lettuce, spinach and chervil.

• large: Rare plants such as large bitter cress, lanceolate water plantain and elongated sedge grow where the wood is wettest.

Modifies a noun

• seedling: Students have successfully grown cress seedlings in glass tubes of agar containing the metal ions.

• sandwich: As he loaded egg cress sandwiches and salad on to his plate, we asked if he was a vegetarian.

• seed: Sprinkle the cress seeds on top of the cotton wool, pressing them down lightly.

• head: Trim the cress head to keep in shape and sprinkle the cuttings onto a salad!

• bed: There would once have been many working cress beds, the remains of which can still be seen.

• plant: Also, thale cress plants are small, so lots can be grown in a limited laboratory space.

Noun used with modifier

• thale: Having found this gene in thale cress, they now know what to look for in important crop species.

• salad: The main buildings on the site are a 1 hectare greenhouse for salad cress production and a 5 hectare greenhouse growing pot herbs.

• water: Judging by the signs, the little river Ecole also supports a thriving water cress industry.

• garden: Coriander ( cilantro ), garden cress, and dill are short-lived annuals that, when cut for harvest, do not regrow.