Noun: cauliflower
| Singular | cauliflower |
| Plural | cauliflowers |
Sample Sentences
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ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans. [1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […] , page 326:]
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His ears were small (fortunately so, given his dramatic hairstyle) and bore no traditional cauliflowers. [2018, John Harding, The Whitechapel Whirlwind: The Jack Kid Berg Story:]
Nouns inflected like cauliflower
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From 16th century cole-florye, equivalent to cole (from Latin caulis) + flower, reformed to more closely match the Latin etymon.By surface analysis, caul(is) + -i- + flower. Cognate with French chou-fleur, Italian cavolfiore. See: Latin Nouns '
caulis', French Nouns '
chou-fleur', Italian Nouns '
cavolfiore'.
Verbs referencing "cauliflower"
Italian Nouns
cavolfiore, French Nouns
chou-fleur, Spanish Nouns
coliflor.