horse radish

Questions about horse radish

What does horse radish mean?

horse radish means "coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root".

What is another word for horse radish?

Close synonyms include horseradish, red cole, Armoracia rusticana. 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 horse radish a common word?

horse radish 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.