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pak-choi|pakˈtʃɔɪ|
[Cantonese, lit. ‘white vegetable’; cf. pe-tsai.]
A Chinese species of cabbage, Brassica chinensis. Also attrib.
1847R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings N. Provinces China xvi. 306 The celebrated ‘Pak-tsae’, or white cabbage of Shastung and Peking, is a very different plant. 1894Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station LXVII. 183 The Pak-Choi, commonly called Chinese cabbage and frequently confounded with the Pe-Tsai..is a vegetable which never forms a head. 1900L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. I. 178/1 Pak-Choi Cabbage... This plant is grown by the American Chinese, and is occasionally seen in other gardens. 1931H. C. Thompson Vegetable Crops (ed. 2) xix. 291 The Pak-choi varieties resemble swiss chard in habit of growth. The leaves are long, dark green and oblong or oval. This type does not form a solid head. 1969Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 154/1 Pak-Choi (Brassica chinensis)..is more closely related to rape and swede than to the European cabbages... The plant does not form a heart and in appearance it resembles chard or spinach beet... Pak-choi does best when sown in July or August, to produce an autumn crop. 1972Y. Lovelock Vegetable Bk. 72 The other [Chinese cabbage], Baak-choy (B[rassica] chinensis), is also called Chinese mustard, and is noted for its lack of smell when cooking. |