American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. Any of various aquatic or marsh ferns of the genus
Marsilea, having floating, four-parted palmate leaves rising
from long runners. Also called water clover. - n. See
peppergrass. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. Any plant of
the genus Lepidium; in England, especially, L. latifolium, the
dittander. Mithridate pepperwort is the European L. campestre,
of which the old name was mithridate mustard, so called because
used in the preparation called mithridate. See dittander, 2,
mithridate, and peppergrass. - n. Any plant of the natural order
Marsileaceæ. GNU Webster's 1913 - n. (Bot.) See peppergrass. -
n. annual herb used as salad green and garnish - n. any of
several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets -
From pepper + wort. (Wiktionary) “He could go to the forest and
gather pepperwort for drying.” “Galilee, to the quiet surface of
the Lake of Tiberias, to shepherds as peaceful as doves, or as
sheep, who feed there a