cauliflower

A noun referring to a plant with a large, compact head of white, undeveloped flower buds that is commonly eaten as a vegetable.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa uma planta da família das crucíferas, cultivada por sua cabeça compacta formada por botões florais brancos e imaturos, consumida como legume. Pode também se referir a essa cabeça usada como alimento.

1. Edible plant A2 formal culinary

   A plant with a large, compact head of white flower buds that is eaten as a vegetable.

   • She roasted the cauliflower with garlic and olive oil.
   • Cauliflower can be used as a low-carb substitute for rice.
   • The farmer grew a large crop of cauliflower this season.

   🇵🇹Couve-flor

2. Vegetable head A2 formal culinary

   The compact head of white undeveloped flowers of the cauliflower plant, used as food.

   • Cut the cauliflower into small florets before cooking.
   • The cauliflower head was fresh and firm at the market.
   • He made a creamy soup from the cauliflower.

   🇵🇹Cabeça de couve-flor

• cauliflowers plural form
• cauliflowers' possessive plural form
• cauliflower's possessive singular form