white mustard

[ hwahyt muhs-terd, wahyt ]

noun

1. a cruciferous plant ( Sinapis alba ) grown for its culinary seeds and valued as an efficient crop for fodder and green manure: the seeds, which are significantly milder than black mustard seeds, are commonly used whole in pickling and finely crushed in the preparation of yellow mustard.

white mustard

noun

1. a Eurasian plant, Brassica hirta (or Sinapis alba ), having clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

Word History and Origins

Origin of white mustard¹

First recorded in 1990–95