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🥬 A Chinese cabbage 🧥 A soft leather
napa

napa

29 7.5
A long, pale green Chinese cabbage used in cooking
  • noun
  • /ˈnɑːpə/
translation icon : col china
  • In many East Asian dishes, napa is often pickled or sautéed.

Any cabbage, Copenhagen cabbage, you know, late flat Dutch Napa cabbage does not matter.

Examples

  • And this, this Napa cabbage is just taking off like crazy.

  • And then a China star Napa style cabbage right here.

  • Any cabbage, Copenhagen cabbage, you know, late flat Dutch Napa cabbage does not matter.

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  • Napa cabbage is a key ingredient in making napa kimchi.

  • He bought a large head of napa to use in his stir-fry recipe.

Synonyms

Chinese cabbage
vsnapa
1 2.3

A vegetable with long pale green leaves and thick white stalks used in Asian cooking

refers to a specific East Asian variety within that broader category
Brassica rapa pekinensis
vsnapa
  • Specialized
7.3

A leafy vegetable like a cabbage used in East Asian cooking

is the common name used in everyday cooking rather than the formal term
nappa
vsnapa
  • UK
6.6

A pale cabbage with tightly packed leaves used in East Asian cooking

has broader stalked leaves rather than tightly packed pale leaves
pe-tsai
vsnapa
8.8

A leafy vegetable like cabbage with long white stems used in Asian cooking

is the more general term for that same vegetable across regions
celery cabbage
vsnapa
3.7

A vegetable with a long head and crisp stalks like celery used in East Asian cooking

has broader, pale soft stalks rather than crisp celery like ones

Surface Forms

napa singular
napas plural

Etymology

Napa for the vegetable comes from the Japanese word nappa, which means 'leaf' or 'greens'. So thinking of a 'leaf' helps you remember that napa is the leafy Chinese cabbage used in many Asian dishes.