mustard

Meanings

Noun

• A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
• Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
• The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
• Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
• One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
• The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.

Adjective

• Of a dark yellow colour.

Related

Similar words

• senvy

Narrower meaning words

• mustard gas
• nitrogen mustard

Origin

• From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde (French: moutarde), from moust, from Latin mustum. Compare Saterland Frisian Muster, Dutch mosterd, German Low German Musterd, Icelandic mustarður. Displaced Middle English senep, from Old English senep, from Latin sināpi. mostarda.