Brussels sprout

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The green vegetable Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera, a cabbage variety native to Belgium. in-plural
    — Brussels sprouts reach a length of 4 centimeters and resemble clusters of miniature cabbages.

词形变化

Brussels sprouts plural brussel sprout alternative brussels sprout alternative

词源

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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