pak choi

noun

Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves

• Syn: ↑bok choy, ↑bok choi, ↑pakchoi, ↑Chinese white cabbage, ↑Brassica rapa chinensis

• Hypernyms: ↑crucifer, ↑cruciferous plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Brassica, ↑genus Brassica

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pak choi /päk choi/

noun

Another name for ↑Chinese cabbage (see under ↑china¹)

ORIGIN: Chin (Cantonese), white vegetable

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pak choi UK [ˌpæk ˈtʃɔɪ] US [ˌpɑk ˈtʃɔɪ] noun [uncountable]

a Chinese vegetable with long dark green leaves and white stems

Thesaurus: vegetables_hyponym types of vegetable_hypernym

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[ˌbäk 'choi]

n. another term for bok choy

Origin:

from Chinese (Cantonese dialect) paâk ts'oì ‘white vegetable’

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Brit spelling of ↑bok choy

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pak choi 7 [ˌpæk ˈtʃɔɪ] [ˌpæk ˈtʃɔɪ] (BrE) (NAmE ˌbok ˈchoy) noun uncountable

a type of ↑Chinese cabbage with long dark green leaves and thick white ↑stems

See also: ↑bok choy  

Word Origin:

[pak choi] from Chinese (Cantonese dialect) paâk ts'oì ‘white vegetable’.