noun
1. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves
• Syn: ↑bok choi, ↑pakchoi, ↑pak choi, ↑Chinese white cabbage, ↑Brassica rapa chinensis
• Hypernyms: ↑crucifer, ↑cruciferous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Brassica, ↑genus Brassica
2. elongated head of dark green leaves on thick white stalks
• Syn: ↑bok choi
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\\ˈbäkˈchȯi, -ˈjȯi\ noun : a Chinese cabbage (Brassica chinensis) that forms an open head with long white stalks and green leaves
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/bok" choy"/
1. an Asian plant, Brassica rapa chinensis, of the mustard family, having a loose cluster of edible, dark-green leaves on white stalks.
2. the leaves and stalks of this plant cooked as a vegetable or eaten raw in salads.
Also, bok-choy, pak-choi, pakchoi.
[ < Chin dial. (Guangdong) baahk-chòi, akin to Chin báicài lit., white vegetable]
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bok choy /bok choiˈ/
noun
Another name for ↑Chinese cabbage (see under ↑china1)
ORIGIN: Variant of ↑pak choi
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pak choi
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bok choy «BOK choy», noun.
a plant, Brassica rapa spp. chinensis, having thick pale stalks and green leaves, from the mustard family—Brassicaceae. Bok choy is often used in Chinese cuisine.
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['bäk 'choi]n. Chinese cabbage of a variety with smooth-edged tapering leaves
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: a type of cabbage originally from China that has green leaves with thick, white stems
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a type of ↑Chinese cabbage with long dark green leaves and thick white ↑stems
See also: ↑pak choi
Useful english dictionary. 2012.