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nouna large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relativestype of:
Definition that contains cruciferae
- wasabi a Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root
- cress any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
- cruciferous of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
- genus cochlearia a genus of the family Cruciferae
- genus aethionema Old World genus of the family Cruciferae
- siliqua narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
- cress plant any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
- subclass dilleniidae a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder
- aethionema Old World genus of the family Cruciferae
- cruciferous plant any of various plants of the family Cruciferae