choy sum

Meaning

Noun

• A Chinese vegetable, a variety of Brassica rapa parachinensis (species) subspecies, similar to bok choy but slimmer, with smooth green leaves and pale green stems, and clusters of flowers on the tips of the inner shoots

Related

Similar words

• Chinese flowering cabbage, caixin

Origin

• Borrowed from Cantonese 菜心. caixin.