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)