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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various plants of the genus Brassica of the mustard family, including cabbage, broccoli, and turnip.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A genus of cruciferous plants, including more than a hundred species, all of which are natives of Europe and northern Asia. Several species have long been in cultivation, and are the origin of a large number of varieties of plants used as table vegetables and as fodder. B. oleracea has given rise to all the forms of cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kohl-rabi, kale, Brussels sprouts, etc., cultivated for their leaves or inflorescence, or, in the stem. B, campestris is the parent of the turnip and of the rutabaga, in which the nourishment is stored in the root, and of the colza and rape, which are raised for the oil of the seed. B. alba and B. nigra are the white and black mustards. The charlock, B. sinapistrum, usually a troublesome weed, and some other species in the East, are sometimes cultivated, chiefly for their seeds. See cuts under broccoli and sprouts.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin brassica (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin Brassica, genus name, from Latin brassica, cabbage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. collard
  2. Brassica
  3. mustard
  4. navew
  5. cabbage
  6. cole
  7. erucic
  8. colza
  9. cauliflower
  10. charlock
  11. scurvy
  1. broccoli
  2. runch
  3. ruta-baga
  4. Myk
  5. ilicitas
  6. Muhith
  7. kohlrabi
  8. brassica
  9. borecole
  10. cole-rape
  11. coleseed
  1. colewort
  2. harlock
  3. keblock
  4. kecklock
  5. kilk
  6. kinkle
  7. mizuna
  8. rutabaga
  9. black mustard
  10. Chinese cabbage
  11. kale
  1. trinomial
  2. turnip
  3. sea cabbage
  4. bok choy
  5. broccoli raab
  6. sinapis
  7. rape
  8. cultivated cabbage
  9. genus sinapis
  10. brassica oleracea
  11. napa
  1. pak-choi
  2. Savoy
  3. sinalbin
  4. sinigrin
  5. kohl-rabi
  6. acrinyl
  7. brassicaceae
  8. crowd-weed
  9. kedlock
  10. krautweed
  11. leaf-blight
  1. pe-tsai

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  • qroqqa While brassica as such only entered English in 1832, I discover to my surprise that a work of about 1420 used it in the form brassik. At that time presumably it could only have meant "cabbage" because none of the other forms existed. Mar 20, 2009

  • dontcry Sounds like one of those Hollywood couple blendings. Jan 7, 2009

  • john “The dish turned out fine, but I had unknowingly and luckily avoided producing a rotten egg stink. Brussels sprouts — and other vegetables of the Brassica family, including cabbage — release hydrogen sulfide as they cook, particularly when boiled for too long.�?

    The New York Times, At the Stove, a Dash of Science, a Pinch of Folklore, by Kenneth Chang, January 5, 2009 Jan 7, 2009

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