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CAULIFLOWER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compact head of white undeveloped flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cauliflower" is a kind of...):

cruciferous vegetable (a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts)

Holonyms ("cauliflower" is a part of...):

Brassica oleracea botrytis; cauliflower (a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds

Synonyms:

Brassica oleracea botrytis; cauliflower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cauliflower" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "cauliflower"):

cauliflower (compact head of white undeveloped flowers)

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