: a pungent yellow condiment consisting of the pulverized seeds of various mustard plants (such as Sinapis alba, Brassica juncea, and B. nigra) either dry or made into a paste or sauce (as by mixing with water or vinegar) and sometimes adulterated with other substances (such as turmeric) or mixed with spices
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: the seed of a mustard plant used as a spice and in medicine as a stimulant and diuretic, an emetic, or a counterirritant
: any of several herbs (genera Brassica and Sinapis of the family Brassicaceae synonym Cruciferae, the mustard family) with lobed leaves, yellow flowers, and linear beaked pods
Recent Examples on the WebAt Pavé, there are a few specks of grainy mustard, adding a slight zing and pop to the otherwise fatty and velvety sandwich.—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024 Dijon is the capital city of the historical Burgundy region in eastern France, one of the country’s principal wine and mustard making areas.—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024 Creole Mustard This coarsely ground, spicy mustard is a New Orleans sandwich staple.—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 14 July 2024 Beginning in 2016, Forever Green started breeding oilseeds — including camelina, which is a member of the mustard family and native to the Mediterranean — for use in a relay-cropping system with soybeans.—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for mustard
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French mustarde, from must must, from Latin mustum
: a pungent yellow condiment consisting of the pulverized seeds of the black mustard or sometimes the white mustard either dry or made into a paste and serving as a stimulant and diuretic or in large doses as an emetic and as a counterirritant when applied to the skin as a poultice
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: any of several herbs (genus Brassica of the family Cruciferae, the mustard family) with lobed leaves, yellow flowers, and linear beaked pods see black mustardsense 1, white mustard
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