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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bok choy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add mushrooms and bok choy and simmer few more minutes.
▪ Add mushrooms and bok choy to broth.
▪ It was quite a distance for a bok choy farmer to have covered in less than ten years.
▪ Q: I am looking for a seed source for slow-bolting bok choy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bok choy

type of Chinese cabbage, from Cantonese, literally "white vegetable."

Wiktionary
bok choy

n. Chinese cabbage, (taxlink Brassica rapa chinensis subspecies noshow=1), an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.

WordNet
bok choy

  1. n. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves [syn: bok choi, pakchoi, Chinese white cabbage, Brassica rapa chinensis]

  2. elongated head of dark green leaves on thick white stalks [syn: bok choi]

Wikipedia
Bok choy

Bok choy or pak choi (; Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) is a type of Chinese cabbage. Chinensis varieties do not form heads; instead, they have smooth, dark green leaf blades forming a cluster reminiscent of mustard or celery. Chinensis varieties are popular in southern China and Southeast Asia. Being winter-hardy, they are increasingly grown in Northern Europe. This group was originally classified as its own species under the name Brassica chinensis by Linnaeus.

Usage examples of "bok choy".

All of them were tossed together in a flurry of bok choy and bamboo shoots, one smothered in a sauce that looked like Orange Crush thickened with cornstarch.