Noun: broccoli
| Singular | broccoli |
| Plural | broccolis; broccoli |
Sample Sentences
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You can also get oriental broccolis such as kailaan and nabana, which are easy to grow and really tasty. [2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, Growing Oriental Leaf Vegetables]
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Examples of leafy vegetables are broccoli, spinach, celery, and chicory. [2013, Anselm Anyoha, MD, How Broccoli-Head Lost Thirty Pounds: A Handbook for Healthy Living, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 83:]
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I be smokin' broccoli, mama told me eat my veggies [2014, “Kodak Black”, in Heart Of The Projects, performed by Skrilla:]
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All I want is cottage, roll a cigar full of broccoli [2017, “T-Shirt”, in Culture, performed by Migos:]
Nouns inflected like broccoli
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1699, Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo (“cabbage sprout, head”), diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”) (which is also the origin of brocade), from Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp, projecting; buck-toothed”), possibly of Gaulish origin, related to Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) or Proto-Celtic *brozdos (“tip, point”) (compare Scottish Gaelic brog (“pointed instrument, awl”), Welsh procio (“thrust, poke”), Old English brord (“point, spike”)). More at brochure, brad. See: Latin Nouns '
broccus', Old English Nouns '
brord'.
Verbs referencing "broccoli"
Irish Nouns
brocailí.