mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭsʹ-tərd
ipa: /ˈmʌstəɹd/
ipa: [ˈmas.təd]
ipa: [ˈmɐs.təd]
ipa: [ˈmʊs.təd]
ipa: [ˈmʌs.tɚd]
rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)d
homophone: mustered
Forms: form: mustards
Etymology: From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde (French moutarde), from moust (“must”), from Latin mustum. Compare Saterland Frisian Muster (“mustard”), Dutch mosterd (“mustard”), German Low German Musterd (“mustard”), Icelandic mustarður (“mustard”). Displaced Middle English senep, from Old English senep, from Latin sināpi (“mustard”). Doublet of mostarda.
Senses: synonyms: senvy
glosses: 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).
examples: text: When the waitress brought the food, I asked whether she had any Dijon mustard.
text: He loved having mustard and toast for breakfast.
glosses: Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
examples: text: Mustard and cress sandwiches.
glosses: The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
glosses: Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
glosses: One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
glosses: The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
glosses: Ellipsis of mustard gas.
examples: text: He's left-handed and in his adulthood didn't have a baseball glove to call his own. He borrowed one of mine and just out of the car, still wearing his lab coat having worked an overnight shift, he taught himself to throw right-handed and put plenty of mustard on it.
ref: 2022 October 20, Scott Russell, “Sport was the great connection for Scott Russell and his father”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Energy, power (when throwing a baseball).
Hyponyms: mustard gas
nitrogen mustard
Derived terms: taxonomic: Brassica carinata
word: Abyssinian mustard
taxonomic: Erysimum repandum
word: African mustard
alt: Wislizenia refracta
word: alkali mustard
word: aniline mustard
taxonomic: Neslia paniculata
word: ball mustard
word: beer mustard
taxonomic: Brassica nigra
word: black mustard
taxonomic: Brassica juncea
word: brown mustard
taxonomic: Biscutella spp.
word: buckler mustard
taxonomic: Brassica juncea
word: Chinese mustard
taxonomic: Brassica kaber
word: corn mustard
taxonomic: Brassica juncea subsp. crispifolia
word: curled mustard
word: cut the mustard
word: demustardization
word: demustardize
word: Dijon mustard
word: dijon mustard
taxonomic: Thlaspi arvense
word: dish mustard
word: English mustard
taxonomic: Brassica carinata
word: Ethiopian mustard
taxonomic: Brassica kaber
word: field mustard
word: French mustard
taxonomic: Alliaria petiolata
word: garlic mustard
word: green mustard cabbage
taxonomic: Eutrema japonicum
word: green mustard
taxonomic: Conringia orientalis
word: hare's-ear mustard
taxonomic: Sisymbrium officinale
word: hedge mustard
word: honey mustard
taxonomic: Brassica juncea
word: Indian mustard
taxonomic: Brassica juncea
word: Japanese mustard
word: Jim Hill mustard
word: keen as mustard
taxonomic: Brassica juncea
word: leaf mustard
word: mithridate mustard
word: mustarded
word: mustarder
word: mustard gas
taxonomic: Brassica juncea
word: mustard greens
word: mustarding
word: mustardise
word: mustardize
word: mustardless
word: mustardlike
word: mustard oil
word: mustard plaister
word: mustard-plaister
word: mustard-plaster
word: mustard plaster
word: mustard pot
word: mustard powder
word: mustard seed
word: mustard tree
word: mustardy
word: nitrogen mustard
taxonomic: Brassica juncea
word: oriental mustard
taxonomic: Alliaria petiolata
word: poor man's mustard
word: prepared mustard
taxonomic: Brassica nigra
word: red mustard
taxonomic: Brassica besseriana
word: sarepta mustard
word: sea mustard
word: sesquimustard
word: shortpod mustard
taxonomic: Brassica peroiridis
word: spinach mustard
word: spoon mustard
word: stadium mustard
taxonomic: Thlaspi arvense
word: stinking mustard
word: sulfur mustard
word: sulphur mustard
taxonomic: Brassica kaber
word: summer mustard
taxonomic: Descurainia pinnata
word: tansy mustard
word: Tewkesbury mustard
taxonomic: Turritis glabra
alt: syn. Arabis glabra or Arabis turrita
word: tower mustard
word: treacle mustard
word: treacle-mustard
word: tumble mustard
taxonomic: Sisymbrium altissimum
word: tumbling mustard
word: uracil mustard
taxonomic: Diplotaxis muralis
word: wall mustard
taxonomic: Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis
word: white celery mustard
taxonomic: Sinapis alba
word: white mustard
taxonomic: Brassica kaber
word: wild mustard
taxonomic: Erysimum cheiranthoides
word: wormseed mustard
taxonomic: Brassica kaber
word: yellow mustard