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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A former genus of European and Asiatic cruciferous plants, including mustard, the type of the order.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small genus of Old World herbs usually included in genus Brassica

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