Brassica kaber
- noun
- Specialized
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brásica kaber
- The farmer noticed a lot of Brassica kaber in his fields.
Examples
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Farmers often struggle to control the spread of Brassica kaber in their grain fields.
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The bright yellow flowers of Brassica kaber make it easy to spot among other weeds.
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Brassica kaber can quickly overtake fields and reduce crop yields.
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Many Brassica kabers can reduce grain yields significantly.
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Farmers often struggle to control the spread of Brassica kaber in their grain fields.
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The bright yellow flowers of Brassica kaber make it easy to spot among other weeds.
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Brassica kaber can quickly overtake fields and reduce crop yields.
Synonyms
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4.2
A weed with bright yellow flowers that grows in farm fields
A common wild plant with yellow flowers that grows in grain fields and harms crops
A wild plant with yellow flowers that grows among crops and is often a weed
A weed that grows in grain fields and harms crops
A common field weed with yellow flowers and edible leaves
Surface Forms
Morphology
Brassica + kaber
This is a Linnaean binomial: knowing 'Brassica' (cabbage/broccoli genus) lets a learner infer the expression refers to a plant in that genus, so part of the meaning is compositional. However, 'kaber' is not an English lexical item (it is a species epithet and gives no predictable information about being weedy or Eurasian), so the full, specific sense cannot be derived from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Brassica kaber comes from Brassica, the name given to cabbage and mustard plants, and the second word kaber marks this particular wild mustard with bright yellow flowers. Because it grows fast and crowds grain fields, it is often called a 'weed' or 'pest', so the name now refers to a common trouble-making field plant.