broccoli

• broccolo (rare)
• brocoli (archaic)
• brockely (obsolete)

1699, Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo (“cabbage sprout, head”), diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”) (which is also the origin of brocade[1]), from Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp, projecting; buck-toothed”), possibly of Gaulish origin, related to Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) or Proto-Celtic *brozdos (“tip, point”) (compare Scottish Gaelic brog (“pointed instrument, awl”), Welsh procio (“thrust, poke”), Old English brord (“point, spike”)). More at brochure, brad.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒ.kə.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑ.kə.li/, /ˈbɹɑk.li/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒ.kə.li/, (nonstandard) /ˈbɹɒ.kə.laɪ/

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broccoli (countable and uncountable, plural broccolis or broccoli)

1. A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.

   Hypernym: crucifer

   Hyponym: (UK) Calabrese

   • 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), Growing Oriental Leaf Vegetables:

     You can also get oriental broccolis such as kailaan and nabana, which are easy to grow and really tasty.

   • 2013, Anselm Anyoha, MD, How Broccoli-Head Lost Thirty Pounds: A Handbook for Healthy Living, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 83:

     Examples of leafy vegetables are broccoli, spinach, celery, and chicory.

2. (US, slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

   • 2014, “Kodak Black”, in Heart Of The Projects, performed by Skrilla:

     I be smokin' broccoli, mama told me eat my veggies

   • 2017, “T-Shirt”, in Culture, performed by Migos:

     All I want is cottage, roll a cigar full of broccoli

• brocade

• → Japanese: ブロッコリー (burokkorī)

broccoli

1. plural of broccolo

• broccoli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:broccoli on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From the plural of Italian broccolo.

broccoli c (singular definite broccolien, plural indefinite broccoli)

1. broccoli

Borrowed from Italian broccoli

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• Hyphenation: broc‧co‧li

broccoli m (plural broccoli's, diminutive broccolietje n)

1. (chiefly uncountable) broccoli

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔk.ko.li/

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• Rhymes: -ɔkkoli
• Hyphenation: bròc‧co‧li

broccoli m

1. plural of broccolo

Borrowed from Italian broccoli.

broccoli m (uncountable)

1. broccoli

broccoli c

1. broccoli

• broccoli in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• broccoli in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)