| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| broccoli raab |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  räb |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or broccoli rabe |
| NOUN: | A vegetable plant (Brassica rapa) related to the turnip and grown for its pungent leafy shoots. Also called rapini. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian broccoli di rapa : broccoli, pl. diminutive of brocco, sprout, shoot; see broccoli + di, of (from Latin d ; see de–) + rapa, turnip; see rape2.
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