broccoli rabe
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈbrɒkəli rɑːb/
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brócoli rabe
- Broccoli rabe last week was delicious.
- add broccoli rabe
- sausage and broccoli rabe
- broccoli rabe and garlic
Examples
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Showing up early was a preventive measure intended to guarantee his spot cutting broccoli rabe and reduce the risk of losing a day's wages.
Blog text (4) -
The second course will be Atlantic flounder rollatini with broccoli rabe and livomaise sauce.
Blog text (22) -
Sometimes with broccoli rabe, sometimes without.
Blog text (12) -
Then I took a bite of my chicken cutlet and broccoli rabe.
Blog text (26) -
Italians, they got broccoli rabe on the menu right next to the braciole.
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The broccoli rabe leaves were tied in bunches and were about a foot and a half long at the grocery in Mercatale.
Blog text (13) -
He was looking forward to the end of the broccoli rabe harvest, when he would begin collecting unemployment and rest up before the onion harvest began again in April.
Blog text (4) -
When I was a child, no one knew zucchini, broccoli rabe, or basil; they were foreign entities, not American, and I was embarrassed that they were growing in my grandmother's backyard and served in her house.
Fiction book (2001) -
The main course was a braised chicken leg served with one strand (I'm not kidding you) of broccoli rabe and two small, very creamy, fingerling potatoes.
Blog text (23) -
In Italian cuisine, chefs often use broccoli rabe to add a slightly bitter flavor to their dishes.
Synonyms
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8.1
A green leafy vegetable like broccoli with a slightly bitter taste that people cook in Italian dishes
A plant with spicy leafy shoots that people eat as a vegetable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound names a specific kind of vegetable formed by combining 'broccoli' (a green vegetable) with 'rabe' (a leafy vegetable used in Italian dishes), so the referent is directly derivable as a broccoli-like leafy vegetable. This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase rather than an idiom, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Broccoli rabe may come from Italian: broccoli for its small broccoli-like flower buds and rabe from the word 'rapa' meaning 'turnip', because the plant has leafy, turnip-like greens. So the name helps you remember it looks like tiny broccoli but is a leafy vegetable with a slightly 'bitter' taste.