cruciferous vegetable

Questions about cruciferous vegetable

What does cruciferous vegetable mean?

cruciferous vegetable means "a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts".

Is cruciferous vegetable a common word?

cruciferous vegetable 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.