Mustard

Definitions

1. 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).
   uncountable, usually
2. A surname.
3. Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
   uncountable, usually
4. The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
   uncountable, usually
5. Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
   uncountable, usually
6. One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
   uncountable, usually
7. The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
   uncountable, usually
8. Ellipsis of mustard gas.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable, usually
9. Energy, power (when throwing a baseball).
   colloquial, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“When the waitress brought the food, I asked whether she had any Dijon mustard.”

“He loved having mustard and toast for breakfast.”

“Mustard and cress sandwiches.”

“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.”

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