noun
Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves
• Syn: ↑bok choy, ↑bok choi, ↑pakchoi, ↑Chinese white cabbage, ↑Brassica rapa chinensis
• Hypernyms: ↑crucifer, ↑cruciferous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Brassica, ↑genus Brassica
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pak choi /päk choi/
noun
Another name for ↑Chinese cabbage (see under ↑china1)
ORIGIN: Chin (Cantonese), white vegetable
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a Chinese vegetable with long dark green leaves and white stems
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[ˌbäk 'choi]n. another term for bok choy
Origin:
from Chinese (Cantonese dialect) paâk ts'oì ‘white vegetable’
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Brit spelling of ↑bok choy
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a type of ↑Chinese cabbage with long dark green leaves and thick white ↑stems
See also: ↑bok choy
Word Origin:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.