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Brussels sprout

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Brussels sprout
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a variety of cabbage, Brassica oleracea gemmifera, having a stout stem studded with budlike heads of tightly folded leaves, resembling tiny cabbages
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the head of this plant, eaten as a vegetable
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Noun1.Brussels sproutbrussels sprout - plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages
Brassica oleracea gemmifera
brussels sprouts - the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
crucifer, cruciferous plant - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae
Translations
Brussels sprout n → cavoletto di Bruxelles
Brussels sprout n → cavoletto di Bruxelles


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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; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces.
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