a European coastal plant, Crambe maritima, with broad fleshy leaves and white flowers, cultivated for its edible asparagus-like shoots: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
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sea kale in American English
a fleshy, European, coastal plant (Crambe maritima) of the crucifer family, whose edible young shoots are blanched and used like asparagus
Word origin
from growing near the coast
Examples of 'sea kale' in a sentence
sea kale
Clumps of reedgrass, sea kale, red flowers, rusty tins or the odd bottle littered the shingle.