'Garlic mustard' definitions:
Definition of 'garlic mustard'
From: WordNet
noun
European herb that smells like garlic [syn: garlic mustard, hedge garlic, sauce-alone, jack-by-the- hedge, Alliaria officinalis]
Definition of 'Garlic mustard'
From: GCIDE
- Garlic \Gar"lic\, n. [OE. garlek, AS. g[=a]rle['a]c; gar spear, lance + le['a]c leek. See Gar, n., and Leek.]
- 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A kind of jig or farce. [Obs.] --Taylor (1630). [1913 Webster]
- Garlic mustard, a European plant of the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic.
- Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica ({Crat[ae]va gynandra}), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste. [1913 Webster]