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Compact head of white undeveloped flowers
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cauliflower
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cauliflower ear EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A vegetarian, he goes for days consuming nothing but fruit juices and cauliflower . ▪ All during supper, eating a pork chop and cauliflower and mashed potatoes, Stephen had wanted ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cauliflower is one of several vegetables in the species Brassica oleracea , in the family Brassicaceae . It is an annual plant that reproduces by seed. Typically, only the head (the white curd ) is eaten. The cauliflower head is composed of a white inflorescence ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Brassica oleracea var. botrytis variety noshow=1), an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2 The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, originally cole florye , from Italian cavoli fiori "flowered cabbage," plural of cavolo "cabbage" + fiore "flower" (from Latin flora ; see flora ).\n \nFirst element is from Latin caulis "cabbage" (originally "stem, stalk") which was borrowed into ...
Usage examples of cauliflower.
Mayonnaise dressing is used for meat, fish, some varieties of fruit, as banana, apple and pineapple, and for some vegetables, as cauliflower, asparagus and tomatoes.
Never mind, I had an established asparagus bed so I would be able to cut asparagus for our meals, also I could harvest early lettuce, broccoli and radishes, leeks and spring cabbages, winter cauliflower and winter spinach.
Since all but me were vegetarians I had made a dinner of cream of spinach soup with steamed turnip tops, broccoli quiche, asparagus risotto, cauliflower cheese and a mixed salad.
Garnish with flowerets of cauliflower, dipped in aspic and chilled, and lettuce.
One whipping bough caught Weed on his cauliflower ear, leaving a line of blood.
They want to see neck bones, gizzards, oxtails, and dirty rice on the menu, not potage of cauliflower with caviar, roast duck in port sauce, or feuillet of squab.
Soon, they were swamped with the language of fistiana, with cheering swells and rapid-fire descriptions of a brute struggle between two cherubic assassins on cauliflower row, each landing pancake blows that knocked the gallery gods cuckoo.
Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.
Indeed, there are more recipes for cauliflower than any other vegetable here, because cauliflower is The Great Fooler and makes a terrific substitute for rice, potatoes, and even bulgar wheat or noodles.
We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions,--as the stump of a tail in tailless breeds,--the vestige of an ear in earless breeds,--the reappearance of minute dangling horns in hornless breeds of cattle, more especially, according to Youatt, in young animals,--and the state of the whole flower in the cauliflower.
Frank once again claimed her while she picked at the boiled leg of Iamb with cauliflower.
The garden was a model of orderliness, with rows of cauliflowers and winter cabbage, leeks and Brussels sprouts and, under cloches along one wall, neat rows of seedlings.
The skyscape, as if under the hand of a dissatisfied sculptor, kept re-creating its cauliflower fields, snowy mountains, foamy forests, and lakes of mist.
Of course, he could not see any of these things with his eyes, but rather caught their scents with a nose that from day to day smelled such things more keenly and precisely: the worm in the cauliflower, the money behind a beam, and people on the other side of a wall or several streets away.
The Qorma-i Tarkari, a dish of cauliflower, carrots and potatoes topped with lamb sauce and seasoned with turmeric, cumin, saffron and dill over basmati rice, was delicious.