different between brocade vs broccoli

English

Etymology

From Occitan brocada and Spanish and Portuguese brocado, influenced by French brocart, from Italian broccato, from brocco, ultimately from Gaulish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???ke?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

brocade (countable and uncountable, plural brocades)

1. (countable, uncountable) A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 321]:

     … his desire to stand in brocade and sing Rhadames in Aida was like my eagerness to go far, far beyond fellow intellectuals of my generation who had lost the imaginative soul.

2. An item decorated with brocade.
3. Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena
4. (metaphoric) A decorative pattern.

Translations

Verb

brocade (third-person singular simple present brocades, present participle brocading, simple past and past participle brocaded)

1. To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bar code, barcode

English

Alternative forms

• broccolo (rare)
• brocoli (archaic)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.k?.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??.k?.li/, /?b??k.li/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?b??.k?.li/

Noun

broccoli (countable and uncountable, plural broccolis or broccoli)

1. A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.

   Hyponym: (UK) Calabrese

   • 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), Growing Oriental Leaf Vegetables:

     You can also get oriental broccolis such as kailaan and nabana, which are easy to grow and really tasty.

   • 2013, Anselm Anyoha, MD, How Broccoli-Head Lost Thirty Pounds: A Handbook for Healthy Living, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 83:

     Examples of leafy vegetables are broccoli, spinach, celery, and chicory.

2. (US, slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

Derived terms

• broccoflower
• broccoloid

Related terms

• brocade

Translations

Noun

broccoli

1. plural of broccolo

References

Further reading

• broccoli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• broccoli on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Danish

Etymology

From the plural of Italian broccolo.

Noun

broccoli c (singular definite broccolien, plural indefinite broccoli)

1. broccoli

Inflection

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?k.?ko.li], /?br?kkoli/

Noun

broccoli m

1. plural of broccolo