lepidium

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləˈpɪ.di.əm/

lepidium (plural lepidiums)

1. Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts.
   • 2019 February 19, “Green Fillers for Flower Arrangements”, in Danzinger Online‎^[1], Danzinger:

     Danziger’s new Green Dragon, a delicate and airy Lepidium, is a unique green filler for flower arrangements that blends harmoniously in any centerpiece or bouquet. Green Dragon has a heavier stem than other lepidiums, which won’t tangle with each other, ultimately decreasing breakage.

   • Green Deane, “Peppergrass: Potent Pipsqueak”, in Eat The Weeds and other things, too‎^[2]:

     There are about 175 different Lepidiums, no doubt some native to your area and some imported.

   • Valda Dedman, “Spiny Peppercress! - A miserable little endangered plant”, in Articles‎^[3], Geelong Field Naturalists Club:

     Many of the native lepidiums are rare or restricted in distribution, and some have become extinct. […] Aborigines in South Australia steamed bundles of lepidium leaves in earthen pits.

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From Ancient Greek λεπίδιον (lepídion).

lepidium n (genitive lepidiī or lepidī); second declension

1. A plant, garden cress, pepperwort, Lepidium sativum.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → Translingual: Lepidium
  • → English: lepidium

• “lepidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lepidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.