CRUCIFEROUS VEGETABLE

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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"):

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)