rasykobli

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

A few days ago I went to the International Supermarket (which is mostly East 
Asian) looking for gai lan (Chinese broccoli). I saw something similar, but 
it was called something else. It was listed as yu choy on the receipt. I 
never heard of that, so I googled. The name is Cantonese (the Mandarin is you 
cai) for "oil cabbage" or "oil vegetable", and it is Brassica napus, the same 
species as canola. I previously called that species {koblnrapa}, but because 
the rape and the neep are respectively B. napus and B. rapa, I think that 
that word could cause confusion and should be replaced with {rasykobli}.

That leaves the question of what to call the turnip. {gejykobli} is a 
possibility, but it could also be applied to the rutabaga and the kohlrabi. 
Or it could be a non-specific term for any brassicaceous root vegetable. 
{turnipe} is another possibility. Any other ideas?

phma