jack-by-the-hedge

Questions about jack-by-the-hedge

What is another word for jack-by-the-hedge?

It depends which jack-by-the-hedge you mean. In the sense “European herb that smells like garlic”, the synonyms are garlic mustard, hedge garlic, sauce-alone, Alliaria officinalis. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of jack-by-the-hedge?

WordNet records no antonym for jack-by-the-hedge. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for jack-by-the-hedge come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of jack-by-the-hedge

• Full entry for jack-by-the-hedgeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for jack-by-the-hedgeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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