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CRUCIFEROUS VEGETABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cruciferous vegetable" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cruciferous vegetable"):
Indian mustard; leaf mustard; mustard; mustard greens (leaves eaten as cooked greens)
cabbage; chou (any of various types of cabbage)
broccoli (branched green undeveloped flower heads)
cauliflower (compact head of white undeveloped flowers)
brussels sprouts (the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant)
broccoli raab; broccoli rabe (slightly bitter dark green leaves and clustered flower buds)
kohlrabi; turnip cabbage (fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant)
radish (pungent fleshy edible root)
turnip (root of any of several members of the mustard family)
Holonyms ("cruciferous vegetable" is a part of...):
crucifer; cruciferous plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae)
