Wiktionary
n. ''Brassica juncea'', a mustard plant with edible leaves, seeds, and stem.
WordNet
n. leaves eaten as cooked greens [syn: mustard, leaf mustard, Indian mustard]
Usage examples of "mustard greens".
Not much sugar in his diet out there, lots of rice and fish, collards and mustard greens and poke salads.
She and Esau grew four types of tomatoes, butter beans, string beans, black-eyed peas, crowder peas, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, collards, mustard greens, turnips, vidalia onions, yellow onions, green onions, cabbage, okra, new red potatoes, russet potatoes, carrots, beets, corn, green peppers, cantaloupes, two varieties of watermelon, and a few other things she couldn't recall at the moment.
The black-eyed peas have taken a hit, there are some wilted mustard greens at a few places, and no one can buy up all the cornmeal.
She could mix them along with the mustard greens and some early leeks, and then bread-fry the poke for poke sallet.
The plate contained beef stew, mustard greens, lime Jell-O, and a square of corn bread.
Stanley ate the corn bread, and Troy ate the stew and the lime Jell-O, but not the mustard greens.
A lot fewer than that were there now, but the district still showed the signs of crowding and poverty: the storefront churches, the shops advertising mystic potions and charms, the little lunch counters whose windows (those that hadn't blown out) advertised chitlins and sweet potato pie, hot fish and mustard greens.
In the fall we gathered mustard greens, turnips, and peas, the late-producing vegetables that had been planted in May and June.
She and Dream Singer collected and sold fresh fruits and wild vegetables, such as onions, garlic, and mustard greens.
Rand shook his head when he saw the plates, with a few thin slices of gravy-covered beef, a spoonful of mustard greens, and two potatoes on each.
The hall fairly shimmered with the aromas of the communal meal: mutton and turkey, bakery smells, mustard greens, and steamed corn fresh from the fields.