BRASSICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brassica mean? 

• BRASSICA (noun)
  The noun BRASSICA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BRASSICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRASSICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brassica; genus Brassica

Hypernyms ("Brassica" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Brassica"):

Brassica napus napobrassica; rutabaga; rutabaga plant; swede; Swedish turnip; turnip cabbage (a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root)

Brassica napus; colza; rape (Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop)

black mustard; Brassica nigra (widespread Eurasian annual plant cultivated for its pungent seeds; a principal source of table mustard)

Brassica perviridis; Brassica rapa perviridis; spinach mustard; tendergreen (Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage)

bok choi; bok choy; Brassica rapa chinensis; Chinese white cabbage; pak choi; pakchoi (Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves)

Brassica rapa pekinensis; celery cabbage; Chinese cabbage; napa; pe-tsai (plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia)

Brassica juncea; chinese mustard; gai choi; indian mustard; leaf mustard (Asiatic mustard used as a potherb)

mustard (any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica)

Brassica rapa ruvo; broccoli raab; broccoli rabe (plant grown for its pungent edible leafy shoots)

Brassica rapa; turnip; white turnip (widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root)

Brassica oleracea gongylodes; kohlrabi (plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem)

borecole; Brassica oleracea acephala; cole; colewort; kail; kale (a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head)

Brassica oleracea italica; broccoli (plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds)

Brassica oleracea; cabbage; cultivated cabbage (any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers)

Brassica oleracea; wild cabbage (wild original of cultivated cabbages; common in western coastal Europe)

Holonyms ("Brassica" is a member of...):

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)

 Context examples 

A formulation of the mustard plant Brassica juncea grown in a medium that has been enriched with the trace element selenium with potential chemopreventive and chemopotentiating activities.

(high-selenium Brassica juncea, NCI Thesaurus)

Brassica juncea is also known as Indian mustard.

(high-selenium Brassica juncea, NCI Dictionary)

The vegetable oil pressed from seeds or the essential oil extracted from the seeds of Brassica nigra, Brassica juncea, or Brassica hirta.

(Mustard Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Brassica vegetables, including broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, turnip and cauliflower, contain a significant amount of glucosinolates.

(Brassica vegetable, NCI Thesaurus)

The oil extracted from the seeds of Brassica napus.

(Brassica napus Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called Brassica vegetable.

(Cruciferous vegetable, NCI Dictionary)

But even in India and China, where these members of the Brassica genus have been cultivated for more than 4,000 years, scientists have sought to tone down the chemical compounds responsible for their pungent flavor.

(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)

Brassica juncea hyperaccumulates trace elements in soil.

(high-selenium Brassica juncea, NCI Thesaurus)

High-selenium Brassica juncea is being studied in the treatment of cancer.

(high-selenium Brassica juncea, NCI Dictionary)

A vegetable belonging to the Brassica genus of plants in the mustard family with potential chemopreventive activity.

(Brassica vegetable, NCI Thesaurus)