mustard

noun

• 1a pungent-tasting yellow or brown paste made from the crushed seeds of certain plants, typically eaten with meat or used as a cooking ingredient.

• 2the yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the cabbage family whose seeds are used to make this paste.

  • Genera Brassica and Sinapis, family Brassicaceae: several species, in particular black mustard (B. nigra) and white mustard (S. alba)
• used in names of related plants, only some of which are used to produce mustard for the table, e.g., hedge mustard.

• 3a dark yellow color.