brassica rapa chinensis

Questions about brassica rapa chinensis

What does brassica rapa chinensis mean?

brassica rapa chinensis means "Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves".

What is another word for brassica rapa chinensis?

Close synonyms include bok choy, bok choi, pakchoi, pak choi, Chinese white 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 rapa chinensis a common word?

brassica rapa chinensis 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.