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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cauliflower
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 to be alone.
▪ Like a giant cauliflower, interjects Blue.
▪ Look for new season's cauliflowers.
▪ Serve with new potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower.
▪ Then, for entrance or a parade, you have them carry a melon and a cauliflower to make Melancholy.
▪ This amuses us, since people are glad to eat such flowers as cauliflower, broccoli, and artichokes.
▪ Turn out the lights, they hear rustling noises downstairs: a gang of cauliflower trying the back door.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cauliflower

Cauliflower \Cau"li*flow`er\, n. [F. choufleur, modified by E. Cole. L. caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. caulis stalk, cabbage, and fleur flower is fr. L. flos flower. See Cole, and Flower.]

  1. (Bot.) An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or 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
cauliflower

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 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.

Wiktionary
cauliflower

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.

WordNet
cauliflower
  1. n. a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds [syn: Brassica oleracea botrytis]

  2. compact head of white undeveloped flowers

Wikipedia
Cauliflower

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 meristem. Cauliflower heads resemble those in broccoli, which differs in having flower buds. Brassica oleracea also includes broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, collard greens, and kale, though they are of different cultivar groups.

Cauliflower (disambiguation)

Cauliflower is a type of vegetable.

Cauliflower may also refer to:

  • Cauliflower ear, a condition of the ear
  • Cauliflower nose, large, bulbous, ruddy appearance of the nose caused by granulomatous infiltration
  • Cauliflower Hakea, a shrub which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia
  • Cauliflower mushroom, a genus of parasitic mushrooms characterised by cauliflower-like appearance
  • Cauliflower cheese, a British dish with a cauliflower-like appearance

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.