bok choy
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Cantonese 白菜 (baak6 coi3, “white vegetable”). Doublet of pechay.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbok choy (uncountable)
- Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.
- 1998 October, T. R. Reid, “Feeding the Planet”, in National Geographic[1], number 4, page 75:
- A new highway near Hong Kong has the right-of-way where a farmer now squeezes in a patch of bok choy. In the past decade development has overrun much of China's arable land.
Synonyms
edit- (Chinese cabbage): Chinese chard, Chinese mustard, celery mustard, spoon cabbage
Coordinate terms
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editChinese cabbage, Brassica rapa chinensis
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References
edit- bok choy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Brassica rapa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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