cruciferous plant

Questions about cruciferous plant

What does cruciferous plant mean?

cruciferous plant means "any of various plants of the family Cruciferae".

What is another word for cruciferous plant?

Close synonyms include crucifer. 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 cruciferous plant a common word?

cruciferous plant 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.