mustard plaster sinapism | a plaster containing powdered black mustard, applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient |
powdered mustard dry mustard | a substance such that one to three tablespoons dissolved in a glass of warm water is a homemade emetic |
nitrogen narcosis | confused or stuporous state caused by high levels of dissolved nitrogen in the blood, deep-sea divers can suffer nitrogen narcosis from breathing air under high pressure |
mustard mustard greens leaf mustard Indian mustard | leaves eaten as cooked greens |
mustard seed | black or white seeds ground to make mustard pastes or powders |
mustard table mustard | pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds |
Chinese mustard | very hot prepared mustard |
mustard sauce | sauce of prepared mustard thinned with vinegar and vegetable oil with sugar and seasonings |
Cruciferae family Cruciferae Brassicaceae family Brassicaceae mustard family | a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers, includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives |
garlic mustard hedge garlic sauce-alone jack-by-the-hedge Alliaria officinalis | European herb that smells like garlic |
tower cress tower mustard Arabis turrita | European cress having stiff erect stems, sometimes placed in genus Turritis |
tower mustard tower cress Turritis glabra Arabis glabra | or genus Arabis: erect cress widely distributed throughout Europe |
buckler mustard Biscutalla laevigata | plant of southeastern Europe having yellow flowers like those of mustard and pods with open valves resembling bucklers |
mustard | any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica |
mustard oil | oil obtained from mustard seeds and used in making soap |
chinese mustard indian mustard leaf mustard gai choi Brassica juncea | Asiatic mustard used as a potherb |
tendergreen spinach mustard Brassica perviridis Brassica rapa perviridis | Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage |
black mustard Brassica nigra | widespread Eurasian annual plant cultivated for its pungent seeds, a principal source of table mustard |
tansy mustard Descurainia pinnata | North American herb with bitter-tasting pinnate leaves resembling those of tansy |
wormseed mustard Erysimum cheiranthoides | slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed, formerly used as an anthelmintic |
white mustard Brassica hirta Sinapis alba | Eurasian mustard cultivated for its pungent seeds, a source of table mustard and mustard oil |
field mustard wild mustard charlock chadlock Brassica kaber Sinapis arvensis | weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields |
hedge mustard Sisymbrium officinale | stiffly branching Old World annual with pale yellow flowers, widely naturalized in North America, formerly used medicinally |
field pennycress French weed fanweed penny grass stinkweed mithridate mustard Thlaspi arvense | foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods, naturalized throughout North America |
toothbrush tree mustard tree Salvadora persica | glabrous or pubescent evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Salvadora, twigs are fibrous and in some parts of the world are bound together in clusters and used as a toothbrush, shoots are used as camel fodder, plant ash provides salt |
tree tobacco mustard tree Nicotiana glauca | evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States, occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock |
nitrogen cycle | the circulation of nitrogen, nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil |
nitrogen fixation | the assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen by soil bacteria and its release for plant use on the death of the bacteria |
nitrogen balance | the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted) |
nitrogen N atomic number | a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas, constitutes percent of the atmosphere by volume, a constituent of all living tissues |
nitrogen oxide | any of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials, present in car exhausts |
nitrogen dioxide | a highly poisonous brown gas (NO) |
liquid nitrogen | nitrogen in a liquid state |
mustard gas mustard agent blistering agent dichloroethyl sulfide sulfur mustard | a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs, there is no known antidote |
nitrogen mustard | a toxic compound resembling mustard gas in structure, important in cancer treatment |
nitrogen trichloride Agene | a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour |
nitrogen-fixing | contributing to the process of nitrogen fixation |
nitrogenous nitrogen-bearing | of or relating to or containing nitrogen |