mustard
/ˈmʌstəd/noun
mass noun
1
- 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）。
2
- the yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the cabbage family whose seeds are used to make this paste芥菜。
2.1
- 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'.芸薹属和白芥属, 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。
2.2
- 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］。
3
- a dark yellow colour暗黄色, 芥子酱色, 芥末色。
派生词
mustardy
adjective词源
Middle English: from Old French moustarde, from Latin mustum 'must' （the condiment being originally prepared with 'must'）.