Cauliflower

Quick meaning: Cauliflower is a noun meaning Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

Meaning

Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

More Meanings

1. The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
2. The swelling of a cauliflower ear.
3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) swell up like a cauliflower ear.

Example Sentences

The soft steel of the back edge by now has cauliflowered over from hammering on it.

His ears were small (fortunately so, given his dramatic hairstyle) and bore no traditional cauliflowers.

I noticed his right ear was badly cauliflowered and that explained a number of things. It wasn't a new job of cauliflowering.

Returning to your first point, the cauliflowering of magnesite bricks — we presume that this is due to your using high concentrations of oxygen for blowing the furnace, giving high checker-temperatures.

Word Forms

• cauliflowers
• cauliflowering
• cauliflowered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cabbage, excrescence, broccoli, kohlrabi, colewort, kale.

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