brassica
brassica Lexical Profile
brassica Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A culinary vegetable cultivated from plants of the genus Brassica, including leafy greens, heads, florets, and roots such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, and turnip.
"The nutritionist recommended eating a variety of leafy brassicas every week for their high vitamin content."
Any plant of the genus Brassica in the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native primarily to temperate Eurasia and the Mediterranean region, bearing racemes of four-petaled yellow, white, or lavender cross-shaped flowers and grown either as ornamental flowering kale or for oilseeds.
"Fields of flowering brassica turn bright yellow across the countryside in late spring."
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed directly from Classical Latin 'brassica', meaning 'cabbage', a word of uncertain pre-Latin Mediterranean or Celtic origin.
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