different between brooke vs broccoli

English

Noun

brooke (plural brookes)

1. Obsolete spelling of brook

Verb

brooke

1. Obsolete spelling of brook
2. Obsolete spelling of broke

Anagrams

• Booker, booker, rebook

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