Definitions for Brassica

Brassica bras·si·ca

Spelling: [bras-i-kuh]
IPA: /ˈbræs ɪ kə/

Brassica is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in Brassica (aabcirss).

Definitions for Brassica

noun

  1. any plant belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, including many economically important vegetables, as cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, turnip, and mustard.

Origin of Brassica

1825-35; New Latin, Latin: cabbage

Examples for Brassica

Varieties descended from three distinct species of brassica have their stems, or so-called roots, enlarged into globular masses.

The crops cultivated were buckwheat and a species of brassica, both in flower.

Under this category Moquin mentions a petal of brassica oleracea completely split into two.

In the Kohl-rabi (brassica oleracea caulo-rapa) it is the stem.

Two varieties are cultivated in these countries—the summer rape (brassica Campestris oleifera) and winter rape (brassica rapus).

Seeds spherical and cotyledons conduplicate, as in brassica.

In Sinapis and in brassica oleracea foliaceous ovules may occasionally be seen, attached to the placenta by long stalks.

I shall speak of the names of brassica oleracea when I come to vegetables.

brassica, bras′i-ka, n. the turnip and cabbage genus of Crucifer.

This is the wild cabbage, brassica oleracea, from which our cultivated cabbages originated.

Word Value for Brassica
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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