cauliflower









cauliflower


noun

  1. a form of cultivated plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, of the mustard family, whose inflorescence forms a compact, usually whitish head.Compare broccoli.
  2. this head, used as a vegetable.

noun

  1. a variety of cabbage, Brassica oleracea botrytis, having a large edible head of crowded white flowers on a very short thick stem
  2. the flower head of this plant, used as a vegetable
n.

1590s, originally cole florye, from Italian cavoli fiori “flowered cabbage,” plural of cavolo “cabbage” + fiore “flower” (from Latin flora; see flora).

First element is from Latin caulis “cabbage” (originally “stem, stalk”) which was borrowed into Germanic and is the source of cole in cole-slaw and of Scottish kale. The front end of the word was re-Latinized from 18c.; the back end was influenced by flower (n.). The boxer’s cauliflower ear is from 1907.

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