Brussels sprout
Meaning
The green vegetable Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera, a cabbage variety native to Belgium.
Synonyms
Translations
Rosenkohl
chou de Bruxelles
col de Bruselas
cavoletto di Bruxelles
couve-de-bruxelas
spruit
katEtymology
In summary
Recorded since 1748. Named after Brussels, where they were cultivated in the current form perhaps as early as the 13th c. Sprout is from Old English sprūtan (in asprutan (“to sprout”); cognate with Old Saxon sprutan, Old Frisian spruta, Middle Dutch spruten, modern Dutch spruit (“sprout; Brussels sprout”), Old High German spriozan, German sprießen (“to sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”).
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