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cruciferous
[ kroo-sif-er-uhs ]
adjective
- bearing a cross.
- Botany. belonging to the family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), the mustard family of plants; brassicaceous:
Are you getting enough broccoli, cauliflower, and other cruciferous vegetables in your diet?
cruciferous
/ kruːˈsɪfərəs /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cruciferous1
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Example Sentences
Eating lots of cruciferous vegetables—such as broccoli, cabbage, and onions—can also increase the risk of bad-smelling gas or stools.
The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.
Its caterpillar lives near the regions of perpetual snow, on small cruciferous plants.
Scur′viness, state of being scurvy: meanness; Scur′vy-grass, a genus of cruciferous plants, efficacious in curing scurvy.
Eight hundred fathoms broad at this point, the Niger flowed between banks richly grown with cruciferous plants and tamarind-trees.
The cruciferous, or cress-like tribes afford one-seventh of the species, and the compound flowers are nearly as numerous.
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