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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A Chinese vegetable (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) in the mustard family, having a loose head of dark green leaves with thick white stems. Also called celery cabbage, Chinese cabbage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves
  2. n. elongated head of dark green leaves on thick white stalks

Etymologies

  1. From Cantonese 白菜 (baak6 coi3, "white vegetable"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Chinese (Cantonese) paāk ts'oì, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) báicài : bái, white + cài, vegetable. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • ““They said, ‘Our bok choy is so big, why is this bok choy’—the Shanghai bok choy—‘so small?’””

    Simon & Schuster: American Chinatown

  • “Without waiting for her approval, Holmes stepped around the displays of bok choy and flat Oriental peas to stick his head inside of the door.”

    Locked Rooms

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Chinese chard
  1. celery mustard
  1. spoon cabbage
  1. baicai
  1. rapa
  1. Brassica
  1. Chinese mustard
  1. petsai

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. crucifer
  1. cruciferous plant
  1. chou
  1. cabbage

same context (5)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. pekinensis
  1. tatsoi
  1. rapa
  1. napa cabbage
  1. Brassica

reverse dictionary (3)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pak choi
  1. Chinese cabbage
  1. celery cabbage

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