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cruciferous vegetable
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | cruciferous vegetable - a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sproutsveg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plantmustard greens, Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard - leaves eaten as cooked greenscabbage, chou - any of various types of cabbagebroccoli - branched green undeveloped flower headscauliflower - compact head of white undeveloped flowersbrussels sprouts - the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plantbroccoli raab, broccoli rabe - slightly bitter dark green leaves and clustered flower budskohlrabi, turnip cabbage - fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plantradish - pungent fleshy edible rootturnip - root of any of several members of the mustard familycrucifer, cruciferous plant - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae |
cruciferous vegetable
cruciferous vegetable Nutrition
Any of a family of indole-rich vegetables (e.g., broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower and mustard), which have anti-tumour-promoting activity in laboratory animals; colon cancer is associated with decreased consumption of cruciferous vegetables.cruciferous vegetableA family of vegetables (including broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower) named for their cross-shaped flowers. People who eat a diet rich in these vegetables are found to have a decreased incidence of cardiovascular diseases, strokes, and cancer, among other illnesses. See also: vegetablecruciferous vegetable
Words related to cruciferous vegetablenoun a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greensRelated Words- veg
- vegetable
- veggie
- mustard greens
- Indian mustard
- leaf mustard
- mustard
- cabbage
- chou
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- brussels sprouts
- broccoli raab
- broccoli rabe
- kohlrabi
- turnip cabbage
- radish
- turnip
- crucifer
- cruciferous plant
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