horseradish

horseradish
horseradish (n.) 1590s, Cochlearia armoricia; the common name preserves the once-common figurative sense of HORSE (Cf. horse) as "strong, large, coarse" (e.g. in obsolete horse mushroom, horse parsley, O.E. horsminte "horse mint," etc.); also see RADISH (Cf. radish).

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