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Definitions: Cauliflower |
CauliflowerNoun1. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds. 2. Compact head of white undeveloped flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cauliflower" was first used: 1597. (references) |
Etymology: Cauliflower \Cau"li*flow`er\, noun. [French expression choufleur, modified by English Cole. Latin caulis, and by English flower; French chou cabbage is from Latin caulis stalk, cabbage, and fleur flower is from Latin flos flower. See Cole, and Flower.]. (Websters 1913) |
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19th Century Satire | A Cabbage with a college education. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of eating it, you will be taken to task for neglect of duty. To see it growing, your prospects will brighten after a period of loss. For a young woman to see this vegetable in a garden, denotes that she will marry to please her parents and not herself. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | The name of this elegant member of the cabbage family comes from the Latin "caulis"(stalk)and "floris"(flower). Cauliflower is composed of bunches of tiny creamy white florets on clusters of stalks of the same color. Some varieties have a purple or greenish tinge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CAULIFLOWER. A large white wig, such as is commonly worn by the dignified clergy, and was formerly by physicians. Also the private parts of a woman; the reason for which appellation is given in the following story: A woman, who was giving evidence in a ca. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CaMV | English | Cauliflower mosaic virus | Medicine |
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Synonym: CauliflowerSynonym: Brassica oleracea botrytis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cauliflower |
| English words defined with "cauliflower": cauliflower ear, Colliflower, cruciferous vegetable ♦ vegetable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cauliflower": cauliflower top, cruciferous vegetables ♦ FARMWORKER, VEGETABLE II ♦ garden worker ♦ laborer, vegetable farm ♦ pSB8 tuber ♦ SUPERVISOR, BRINEYARD ♦ vegetable worker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cauliflower": Cole. (references) |
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Screenplays | Don't let him turn over on his face or he'll wind up with a cauliflower nose. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Clever | Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
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 | A dark grey plate sits on a mauve, pleated tablecloth. On the plate are radishes, brussels sprouts and cauliflower arranged in a circular pattern. There is more cauliflower and some broccoli on the table. See also AV-3905 and AV-3906.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | There is a butcher block cutting board on a white tablecloth. On the table are peapods, purple cabbage, cherry tomatoes, watercress, carrots, cauliflower and radishes. On the cutting board is a red pepper and an orange paring knife. In front of the board is a grey and white plaid napkin. See also AV-3905.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | From an overhead angle, a textured grey plate full of broccoli and cauliflower is shown on a grey tablecloth decorated with cabbage. Black letterings in the upper right reads: "Choose cruciferous vegetables more often". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" October 1989. See artwork: PV-19.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Serepio Medina with packed cauliflower. Costilla County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Loading cauliflower. Jaroso, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farm boy with crate of cauliflower. Jaroso, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Filipino boy of a labor gang cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dusting cauliflower plants near Santa Maria, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Spring plowing. Guadalupe, California. Cauliflower fields.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Guatemala | The largest seed importer is the vegetable sector, which includes sweet corn, beets, cauliflower, onion, pepper, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, radish, cucumber, lettuce, squash, tomato, and others. (references) |
Trade | Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cauliflower" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.38% of the time. "Cauliflower" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.38% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.54% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cauliflower": cauliflower ear ♦ cauliflower top. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cauliflower": cauliflower-like. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cauliflower"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lulelakër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قنبيط (brussels sprout), قرنبيط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bavarian | karfiol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | карфиол. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 花椰菜. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornish | cawlvlejen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kvìták, karfiol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blomkål. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bloemkool. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | florbrasiko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گل کلم . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kukkakaali. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chou-fleur (cauliflower top). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | blomkoal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Blumenkohl (bonnet, cauliflower top, rising top, spongy top), karfiol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κουνουπίδι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כרובית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karfiol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bungkul. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cavolfiore (bonnet, cauliflower top, rising top, spongy top). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 花野菜 , 花椰菜 , カラー写真 (ballads sung by Karashima Midori, calif, California, California roll, calligraphy, carat, caricature, caricaturize, caries, charisma, charismatic, color photo, colorful, column, curriculum, Kaliglas, Karachi, karaoke, karat, potash glass, potassium, water outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カリフラワー , はなやさい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 모란채. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | caayl blaa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maori | kareparaoa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | blomkål. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auliflowercay couve-flor. (various references) conopidã. (various references) капуста цветная. (various references) karfiol. (various references) coliflor (bonnet, cauliflower top, rising top, spongy top). (various references) blomkål. (various references) ต้นกะหล่ำ"อก. (various references) karnabahar. (various references) цвітна капуста. (various references) hoa lơ. (various references) ukholifulawa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, Brassica oleracea var.botrytis, caulis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cauliflower": caulifloweret, cauliflowerets, cauliflowers. (additional references) | |
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"Cauliflower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cauliflow, Colliflowers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cauliflower" (pronounced kÄ"luflou'er) |
| 4 | -f l ou' er | bellflower, coneflower, cornflower, mayflower, safflower, sunflower, wallflower, wildflower. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-l-l-o-r-u-w" | |
-3 letters: awfuller, callower, firewall, lowlifer, rocaille, weariful. | |
-4 letters: airflow, auricle, calorie, careful, cariole, coalier, collier, failure, flawier, flueric, fluoric, icefall, locular, loricae, lowlier, lowlife, lucifer, ocellar, rouille, wailful. | |
-5 letters: aculei, allure, caller, callow, carful, caroli, cellar, clawer, coaler, coiler, collar, collie, colure, cowier, cowrie, culler, curfew, curiae, curial, curlew, earful, eclair, facile, faille, faller. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-l-l-o-r-u-w" | |
+1 letter: cauliflowers. | |
+2 letters: caulifloweret. | |
+3 letters: cauliflowerets. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)C a u l i f l o w e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0075 006C 0069 0066 006C 006F 0077 0065 0072 |
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