chinese mustard

Questions about chinese mustard

What does chinese mustard mean?

chinese mustard means "Asiatic mustard used as a potherb". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for chinese mustard?

Close synonyms include indian mustard, leaf mustard, gai choi, Brassica juncea. 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 chinese mustard a common word?

chinese mustard 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.