mithridate mustard

Questions about mithridate mustard

What does mithridate mustard mean?

mithridate mustard means "foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America".

What is another word for mithridate mustard?

Close synonyms include field pennycress, French weed, fanweed, penny grass, stinkweed. 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 mithridate mustard a common word?

mithridate mustard 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.