Wild Cabbage
Brassica oleracea var. italica
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Broccoli (Wiktionary)
English
Alternative forms
- broccolo (rare)
- brocoli (archaic)
Etymology
1699, Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo (“cabbage sprout, head”), diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”) (which is also the origin of brocade), from Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp, projecting; buck-toothed”), possibly of Gaulish origin, related to Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) or Proto-Celtic *brozdos (
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