Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: brassica

[L., cabbage] /BRASS ikuh/
plants of the mustard family, including cabbage,
cauliflower, broccoli, and turnip

"The brassica industry is utilising biological and
cultural pest management integrated with chemical
control."
- Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
Queensland, 25 August 2004

"He remembered joining.. The Men Of The Furrow, in
some town out in the stalks.*... *In areas more
wooded, less dominated by the cabbage and general
brassica industry, it would, of course, have been
in the sticks." - Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

(not to be confused with brass bands, brass knuckles,
brass tacks, top brass, etc.)