brassica oleracea

Questions about brassica oleracea

What does brassica oleracea mean?

brassica oleracea means "any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for brassica oleracea?

Close synonyms include cabbage, cultivated cabbage, wild cabbage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brassica oleracea a common word?

brassica oleracea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.