a green or purplish flower head of a plant of the cabbage family, used as a vegetable
a plant of the cabbage family widely cultivated for its clusters of edible green or purplish flower heads that are cooked and eaten before the buds have opened: Brassica oleracea italica
a flower head of this plant, used as a vegetable
[Italian broccoli, pl of broccolo flowering top of a cabbage, dimin. of brocco small nail, sprout, from Latin broccus projecting]