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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An annual Eurasian plant (Sinapis alba syn. Brassica alba) in the mustard family, having yellow flowers and yellowish-brown seeds used as a spice and for their oil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A kind of mustard (
Sinapis alba ) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Eurasian mustard cultivated for its pungent seeds; a source of table mustard and mustard oil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the relatively light color of the seeds when compared to those of black mustard.]
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