tendergreen

1. 1.

   Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage

   Synonymsspinach mustardBrassica perviridisBrassica rapa perviridis

   Broadercrucifer

   Part ofBrassica

Other forms of tendergreen

plural

tendergreens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tendergreen

What does tendergreen mean?

tendergreen means "Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage".

How many syllables are in tendergreen?

tendergreen has 3 syllables: ten-der-green. The stress falls on "ten".

What is another word for tendergreen?

Close synonyms include spinach mustard, Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis. 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 tendergreen a common word?

tendergreen 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.