cruciferous vegetable - a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sproutsvegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant broccoli - branched green undeveloped flower heads cauliflower - compact head of white undeveloped flowers radish - pungent fleshy edible root turnip - root of any of several members of the mustard family |