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Definition of Horse radish

1. Noun. Coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horse Radish

Literary usage of Horse radish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tribune Primer by Eugene Field (1900)
"THE HORSE-RADISH. Willie has Found some Horse-Radish. It is in a Jar labeled Jam. He has just Taken a Big Mouthful of the Horse-Radish. ..."

2. The Principles of Vegetable-gardening by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"Horse-radish is grown for its root, which has a pungent quality that makes it prized as a ... When the cabbages are off, the horse-radish takes the land. ..."

3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"A small tree with corky bark, soft wood, and pungent root having the taste of horse-radish. Leaves pinnately compound, usually ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The season of fresh-grated horse-radish runs almost parallel to that of ... Horse-radish will do well upon almost any soil except the lightest sand and the ..."

5. The New American Gardener; Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of by Thomas Green Fessenden (1828)
"HORSE-RADISH. [or as soon as frost will permit,] eighteen inches of the earth of the unplanted bed must be laid, as light as possible, and equally, ..."

6. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"Conductor Pulling gravely removed the wrapper, and picking up one of the loots, said,— "Why, that ain't horse-radish; that is parsnip." "Parsnip! ..."

7. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"HORSE-RADISH Horse-radish was considered an essential of every old-fashioned garden. Somewhere about every old house site throughout the eastern United ..."

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