brussels sprouts

Brussels sprouts

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)1. A plant (Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera) in the mustard family, having stout cabbagelike buds.2. The buds of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.

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brussels sprouts - the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plantplural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than onecruciferous vegetable - a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sproutsBrassica oleracea gemmifera, brussels sprout - plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages

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Brussels sprouts

Brussels sprouts,

variety (gemmifera) of cabbagecabbage,
leafy garden vegetable of many widely dissimilar varieties, all probably descended from the wild, or sea, cabbage (Brassica oleracea) of the family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae; mustard family), found on the coasts of Europe.
..... Click the link for more information. producing small edible heads (sprouts) along the stem. It is cultivated like cabbage and was first developed in Belgium and France in the 18th cent. Brussels sprouts are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Capparales (or Brassicales), family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae).

brussels sprouts

[¦brəs·əlz ′sprau̇ts] (botany) Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera. A biennial crucifer of the order Capparales cultivated for its small, edible, headlike buds.

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noun the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant

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