mustard

mustard
noun
[mass noun]

a hot-tasting yellow or brown paste made from the crushed seeds of certain plants, typically eaten with meat or used as a cooking ingredient
芥末酱（常与肉类同食或用作烹饪调料）
the yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the cabbage family whose seeds are used to make this paste
芥菜
Genera Brassica and Sinapis, family Cruciferae: several species, in particular black mustard (B. nigra) and white mustard (S. alba), which is commonly eaten as a seedling in mustard and cress
芸苔属和白芥属，十字花科：数种，尤指黑芥（拉丁名B. nigra）和白芥（拉丁名S. alba)，后者的幼苗常和水芹嫩叶一起食用
■used in names of related plants, only some of which are used to produce mustard for the table, e.g. hedge mustard
［用于亲缘植物的名称中，其中仅一部分可制成食用芥末，例如hedge mustard]
a dark yellow colour
暗黄色，芥子酱色，芥末色

派生
mustardy
adjective
语源

Middle English: from Old French moustarde, from Latin mustum 'must'(the condiment being originally prepared with'must)'

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