English > cruciferous vegetable: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | A vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts. |
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| Part of | crucifer, cruciferous plant | Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae |
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| Narrower | broccoli | branched green undeveloped flower heads |
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| broccoli rabe, broccoli raab | slightly bitter dark green leaves and clustered flower buds |
| brussels sprouts | The small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant |
| cabbage, chou | Any of various types of cabbage |
| cauliflower | compact head of white undeveloped flowers |
| kohlrabi, turnip cabbage | fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant |
| mustard, mustard greens, leaf mustard, Indian mustard | leaves eaten as cooked greens / greens |
| radish | pungent fleshy edible root |
| turnip | root of any of several members of the mustard family |
| Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
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| Spanish | crucífera |
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| Catalan | crucífera |
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