leaf mustard
- noun
- She grows leaf mustard in her garden each spring for fresh greens.
Examples
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Stir-fried leaf mustard is a popular dish in Southern cuisine.
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The soup was flavored with garlic and leaf mustard to add a spicy kick.
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I love adding leaf mustard to my salads.
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Have you tried leaf mustard in your stir-fry?
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Stir-fried leaf mustard is a popular dish in Southern cuisine.
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She grows leaf mustard in her garden each spring for fresh greens.
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I love adding leaf mustard to my salads.
Synonyms
2
3.6
Leaves from a mustard plant that people eat cooked
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2.0
Leaves from a plant like cabbage that are cooked and eaten as greens
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4.0
A leafy plant from Asia with spicy leaves used as a vegetable or seasoning
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4.6
A leafy plant with leaves eaten as greens and seeds used as a spice and for oil
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5.1
A plant in the mustard family grown for spicy leaves and seeds
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9.9
A leafy green vegetable with thick slightly bitter leaves used in Chinese cooking
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: combining 'leaf' (a plant leaf) with 'mustard' (the mustard plant or its edible leaves) yields a type/part of mustard used as a vegetable. Noun–noun compounds referring to a plant part or variety are cross-linguistically common and follow predictable composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand this term.
Etymology
Leaf mustard is named for the spicy leaf of the mustard plant that people eat as a green 'vegetable'. So the name simply tells you it is a mustard grown for its leaves rather than for its seeds.