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mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.

mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.

Plants of the cabbage family.

The Cabbage, (F.) Chou potager. Order, Cruciferae. Sex. Syst. Tetradynamia Siliquosa. Cato wrote a book on its virtues. It is a vegetable by no means easy of digestion when boiled; when raw, it appears to be more digestible. When forming a solid globular mass, like a head, it is the B. Capita'ta, (F.) Chou-Cabus, Chou Pomme.

The cabbage.

A genus of cruciferous plants of the tribe Brassiceae, including the cabbages, turnips, and (according to Bentham and Hooker) the mustards.