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patchoi

patchoi is the alternative form of bok choy.

Meaning of bok choy

Noun

bok choy (uncountable)

  1. Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.
    • A new highway near Hong Kong has the right-of-way where a farmer now squeezes in a patch of bok choy. In the past decade development has overrun much of China's arable land.1998 October, T. R. Reid, “Feeding the Planet”, in National Geographic, number 4, page 75
    Synonyms:
    Chinese chard, Chinese mustard, celery mustard, spoon cabbage

Origin of patchoi

From Cantonese 白菜 (baak⁶ coi³).

Questions about patchoi

What is patchoi the alternative form of?
Patchoi is the alternative form of bok choy.

Words near patchoi in the dictionary

  1. patchless
  2. patchlike
  3. patchnose snake
  4. patchnose snakes
  5. Patchogue
  6. patchoi
  7. patchoulene
  8. patchoulenes
  9. patchoulenone
  10. patchouli
  11. patchoulied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patchoi (page history and authors); bok choy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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