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horse-radish

horse-radish is the alternative spelling of horseradish.

Meaning of horseradish

Noun

horseradish (countable and uncountable, plural horseradishes)

  1. (countable) A plant of the mustard family, Armoracia rusticana, cultivated for its edible root.
  2. (uncountable) A pungent condiment made from the root of the plant.
  3. (slang) Nonsense.

Forms of horse-radish

pluralhorse-radishes

Questions about horse-radish

What is horse-radish the alternative spelling of?
Horse-radish is the alternative spelling of horseradish.

Words near horse-radish in the dictionary

  1. horse-play
  2. horse-power
  3. horse-pox
  4. horse-race
  5. horse-races
  6. horse-radish
  7. horse-radishes
  8. horse-shoe vetch
  9. horse-shoe vetches
  10. horse-stinger
  11. horse-stingers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse-radish (page history and authors); horseradish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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