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cauliflowerVariety of cabbage, with a large edible head of fleshy, cream-coloured flowers which do not fully mature. It is similar to broccoli but less hardy. (Brassica oleracea botrytis, family Cruciferae.) |
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And with the bread, I'll give you a nice dish of cauliflower with white sauce on it. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions,--as the stump of a tail in tailless breeds,--the vestige of an ear in earless breeds,--the reappearance of minute dangling horns in hornless breeds of cattle, more especially, according to Youatt, in young animals,--and the state of the whole flower in the cauliflower. |
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