bok choy
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Cantonese 白菜 (baak6 coi3, “white vegetable”). Doublet of pechay.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok 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
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Translations[edit]
Chinese 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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