cauliflower
noun/ˈkɒliflaʊə(r)/
/ˈkɑːliflaʊər/
[uncountable, countable]- a vegetable with green leaves around a large hard white head of flowers
- Do you like cauliflower?
- two cauliflowers
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from obsolete French chou fleuri ‘flowered cabbage’, probably from Italian cavolfiore or modern Latin cauliflora. The original English form colieflorie or cole-flory had its first element influenced by ‘cole’, the brassica type of plant, to which it belongs; the second element was influenced by flower during the 17th cent.Definitions on the go
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