Difference between Mustard and Rapeseed

What is the difference between Mustard and Rapeseed?

Mustard as a noun is a plant of the genus brassica, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods. while Rapeseed as a noun is the rape plant, brassica napus, which produces a grain that is used widely for animal feed and vegetable oil

Mustard

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a plant of the genus Brassica, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods. a powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice. a dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard. The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (colour) of a dark yellow colour. (Skateboard Slang) Outstanding. Popularized by Finnish Skateboarder Arto Saari "Check out these shoes, they're really mustard." ("Pro Spotlight," Skateboarding Magazine, 12/06.)

Rapeseed

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the rape plant, Brassica napus, which produces a grain that is used widely for animal feed and vegetable oilthe seed of such plant

We hope you now know whether to use Mustard or Rapeseed in your sentence.

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