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Definition of Red cole
1. Noun. Coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root.
Group relationships: Armoracia, Genus Armoracia
Terms within: Horseradish, Horseradish Root
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Cole
Literary usage of Red cole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain by Benjamin Herbert Barton, Thomas Castle (1877)
"Horse-radish has been called provincially Red-cole. Like many other plants which
... At the latter end of the 16th century it was known as red cole. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"RED-COLE, Armoracia rusticana, Rupp. " This kinde groweth in Morpeth in
Northumberland, and there it is called Redeo. It should be called after the old ..."
3. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"188), and that the horseradish " is called in the north part of England red-cole " (p.
187). RED-GUM, \ an infantile disease, ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"red cole. Armoracia rusticana, Rupp. ' This kinde groweth in Morpeth in Northumberland
and there it is called Redco. It should be called after the old Saxon ..."
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