cauliflower

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a cultivated cabbage plant whose tightly packed immature flower head is eaten as a vegetable

   The cauliflower grew best in the cool part of the garden.

2. 2
   noun

   the edible white or colored head of this plant

   She roasted the cauliflower with garlic and olive oil.

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Simplified etymology

Cauliflower is a modified form of Italian cavoli fiori, literally “cabbage flowers.” Italian cavoli comes from Latin caulis, “cabbage”; early English forms such as colieflorie and cole-flory were influenced by cole, another word for cabbage, before the spelling was reshaped to resemble the Latin root.

From an early English form such as cole-florye, combining cole ("cabbage"), from Latin caulis, with flower. The spelling was later reshaped under the influence of Latin caulis and English flower; compare French chou-fleur and Italian cavolfiore.

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