sauce-alone

9.9

A leafy herb with a mild garlic smell used in salads or cooking

noun

: sauce-alone

The leaves of sauce-alone can be used in salads for a mild garlic flavor.

Examples

The sauce-alone plant grows wild in many parts of Europe.
Some gardeners regard sauce-alone as an invasive plant despite its edible qualities.
Many foragers seek out sauce-alone in spring woodlands for its culinary uses.
I added some sauce-alone to the salad for extra flavor.
Many foragers seek out sauce-alone in spring woodlands for its culinary uses.
The leaves of sauce-alone can be used in salads for a mild garlic flavor.
Some gardeners regard sauce-alone as an invasive plant despite its edible qualities.

Synonyms

garlic mustard

vssauce-alone

6.1

A plant with green leaves that smell like garlic when crushed

is the same species described without the family detail

hedge garlic

vssauce-alone

8.6

A wild plant whose leaves smell like garlic when crushed

is the same plant named more generally without crushing detail

Alliaria officinalis

vssauce-alone

Specialized

9.5

A European herb with leaves that smell like garlic

uses the common descriptive name rather than scientific form

jack-by-the-hedge

vssauce-alone

9.9

A wild plant with leaves that smell like garlic and can be eaten

focuses on the plant itself rather than its common locations

Surface Forms

sauce-alone singular

sauce-alones plural

Etymology

The word sauce-alone is easy to remember: think of sauce ('flavor') and alone ('by itself'). It refers to the herb also called garlic mustard, whose leaves smell like garlic and can be used on their own like a simple sauce or condiment.