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

Brassicaceae, Cruciferae, family Brassicaceae, family Cruciferae, mustard family - plants with four-petaled flowers

cress, cress plant - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae having edible pungent-tasting leaves

Alliaria officinalis, garlic mustard, hedge garlic, jack-by-the-hedge, sauce-alone - European herb that smells like garlic

alyssum, madwort - any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers

Anastatica hierochuntica, resurrection plant, rose of Jericho - small gray Asiatic desert plant bearing minute white flowers that rolls up when dry and expands when moist

wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea - wild original of cultivated cabbages; common in western coastal Europe

Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage, cabbage - any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers

Brassica oleracea gemmifera, brussels sprout - plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages

Brassica oleracea botrytis, cauliflower - a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds

Brassica oleracea italica, broccoli - plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds

borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail, kale - a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head

Brassica oleracea gongylodes, kohlrabi - plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem

turnip plant - any of several widely cultivated plants having edible roots

Brassica rapa ruvo, broccoli raab, broccoli rabe - plant grown for its pungent edible leafy shoots

mustard - any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica

Brassica rapa pekinensis, celery cabbage, Chinese cabbage, napa, pe-tsai - plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia

bok choi, bok choy, Brassica rapa chinensis, Chinese white cabbage, pakchoi - Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves

Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard, tendergreen - Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage

Camelina sativa, gold of pleasure - annual European false flax having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America

Capsella bursa-pastoris, shepherd's pouch, shepherd's purse - white-flowered annual European herb bearing triangular notched pods; nearly cosmopolitan as an introduced weed

radish plant - a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root

malheur wire lettuce, Stephanomeria malheurensis - a small plant of Oregon resembling mustard; a threatened species

herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests