WordNet
n. plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages [syn: Brassica oleracea gemmifera]
small cabbage-like heads or buds growing along a stalk [syn: brussels sprouts]
Wikipedia
The Brussels sprout is a member of the Gemmifera Group of cabbages ( Brassica oleracea), grown for its edible buds.
The leafy green vegetables are typically 2.5–4 cm (0.98–1.6 in) in diameter and look like miniature cabbages. The Brussels sprout has long been popular in Brussels, Belgium, and may have originated and gained its name there.
Usage examples of "brussels sprout".
The eggs were delivered twice a week, every Saturday and Wednesday, packed in layers of straw by a brussels sprout farmer who tended a few acres up near Pescadero.
He'd been sucking dry tanks for about five minutes and the cold probably protected his brain and kept him from being a Brussels sprout.
Not a sign of a Brussels sprout and if there's tea I haven't got around to it yet.
They cut him from ear to ear and took out a tumor as big as a brussels sprout.
Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing.
Like clockwork toys, the figures among the brussels sprout stumps straightened their backs.