armoracia rusticana

Questions about armoracia rusticana

What does armoracia rusticana mean?

armoracia rusticana means "coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root".

What is another word for armoracia rusticana?

Close synonyms include horseradish, horse radish, red cole. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is armoracia rusticana a common word?

armoracia rusticana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.