bok choy

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Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 白菜 (baak6 coi3, “white vegetable”). Doublet of pechay.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: bŏk'choi', IPA(key): /ˌbɒkˈt͡ʃɔɪ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Noun

bok choy (uncountable)

  1. Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.
    • 1998 October, T. R. Reid, “Feeding the Planet”, in National Geographic‎[1], number 4, page 75:
      A new highway near Hong Kong has the right-of-way where a farmer now squeezes in a patch of bok choy. In the past decade development has overrun much of China's arable land.

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