what does cruciferous mean
The noun CRUCIFEROUS VEGETABLE has 1 sense: 1. a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts. Familiarity information: CRUCIFEROUS VEGETABLE used as a noun is very rare.ouns denoting foods and drinks. Hypernyms (cruciferous vegetable is a kind of...): vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of cruciferous vegetable):