BRUSSELS SPROUT

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Meaning:

Plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages

Synonyms:

Brassica oleracea gemmifera; brussels sprout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("brussels sprout" is a kind of...):

crucifer; cruciferous plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae)

Meronyms (parts of "brussels sprout"):

brussels sprouts (the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant)

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