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- noun A Chinese vegetable, a variety of Brassica rapa parachinensis subspecies, similar to
bok choy but slimmer, with smooth green leaves and pale green stems, and clusters of flowers on the tips of the inner shoots
Etymologies
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From Cantonese 菜心 (coi3 sam1) (literally "vegetable heart")
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