pe-tsai

What does pe-tsai mean?

pe-tsai means "plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia".

How many syllables are in pe-tsai?

pe-tsai has 2 syllables and divides as pe-t-sai under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pe-tsai?

Close synonyms include Chinese cabbage, celery cabbage, napa, Brassica rapa pekinensis. 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 pe-tsai a common word?

pe-tsai is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pe-tsai come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.