broccoli
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- noun
- /ˈbrɑːkəli/
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brócoli
- I often steam broccoli as a healthy side dish for dinner.
- broccoli and other vegetables
- broccoli and carrots
- broccoli and spinach
I'm just shifting from broccoli and sulforaphane to lentils.
- I'm just shifting from broccoli and sulforaphane to lentils.
- This is a a piece of broccoli, a little broccoli floret.
- It's an amino acid found in broccoli, found all over the place.
- Assuming you know how to trim broccoli and trim cauliflower.
- I got her the roasted broccoli and then the Far East bowl.
- So spinach, it would be good, broccoli, broccoli ray, mustard greens.
- We got printed out the instructions say broccoli pesto, penny pasta.
Examples
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Now, we are going to sauté the broccoli lightly in olive oil till it's just bright green.
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I got orange chicken, broccoli, beef and fried rice.
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OK, let's make sure the broccoli looks absolutely perfect.
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Let's say the price of broccoli goes way up.
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Can you come back and finish your broccoli?
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Have one more piece of broccoli.
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And then I'm probably going to serve it with rice and broccoli tonight for the kids.
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Aunt Bee, is there any more broccoli?
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Preparing dinner, she commented that the produce here, especially the broccoli, was not like what we had in Chile.
Academic text (2002) -
We are also getting fresh broccoli and cauliflower florets.
Synonyms
A green vegetable with tight bunches of small flower buds that you eat cooked or raw
Compounds
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A leafy green vegetable with slightly bitter leaves and small buds used in cooking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Broccoli comes from the Italian broccolo, which means 'sprout' or 'little branch'. So imagine broccoli as lots of tiny green trees or branches, which explains why the vegetable has thick stems and many tight little flower buds.