broccoli
noun/ˈbrɒkəli/
/ˈbrɑːkəli/
[uncountable]- a vegetable with a thick green stem and several dark green or purple flower headsTopics Foodb2Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Italian, plural of broccolo ‘cabbage sprout, head’, diminutive of brocco ‘shoot’, based on Latin brocchus, broccus ‘projecting’.
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