Definitions for brassicas

brassicas bras·si·ca

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

Brassicas is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 233 anagrams from letters in brassicas (aabcirsss).

Definitions for brassicas

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 brassicas

1825-35; New Latin, Latin: cabbage

Examples for brassicas

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seeds spherical and cotyledons conduplicate, as in brassica.

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

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

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

Word Value for brassicas
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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