broccoli

Meaning of broccoli

noun

a cultivated variety of cabbage bearing heads of green or purplish flower buds that are eaten as a vegetable.

mid 17th century: from Italian, plural of broccolo ‘cabbage sprout, head’, diminutive of brocco ‘shoot’, based on Latin brocchus, broccus ‘projecting’.

Information about broccoli

It is a name.
The plural form of broccoli is: broccolis.
Languages in which broccoli is used:
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- English

Hyphenation of broccoli

broc-coli

It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
broccoli is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of broccoli

Spanish: brócoli, brécol
French: brocoli
Portuguese: brócolis
German: Brokkoli
Italian: broccolo

Words that rhyme with broccoli

coli, caracoli, chacoli, trabacoli, Nicoli, brocoli, scoli

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