Broccoli
Appearance
Broccoli | |
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Species | Brassica oleracea |
Cultivar group | italica |
Oreegin | Italy, ower 2,000 yeir agae[1][2] |
Broccoli is a fuid plant, Brassica oleracea, etten as a vegatable. A vegetable-like cabbitch, the broccoli haes lairge green flouer heids an a shank an aw. The wird broccoli comes frae the Italian plural o broccolo, that means "the flouerin tap o a cabbitch", and is the diminutive form o brocco, meanin "wee nail" or "sproot".[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Buck, P. A (1956). "Origin and taxonomy of broccoli". Economic Botany. 10 (3): 250–253. doi:10.1007/bf02899000. S2CID 31365713.
- ↑ Stephens, James. "Broccoli—Brassica oleracea L. (Italica group)". University of Florida. p. 1. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 14 Mey 2009.
- ↑ "broccoli". Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.). 2004. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-87779-809-5. Retrieved 9 Apryle 2014.
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