🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

芽キャベツ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: me kyabetsu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Brussels sprout/ˈbrʌs.əlz spraʊt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14250 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"芽キャベツをサラダに入れて食べました。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small edible bud that resembles a miniature cabbage, growing along the main stem of a cultivated variety of wild cabbage.

    "She roasted the Brussels sprouts with olive oil and garlic until they were tender and caramelized."
  2. 2

    The plant that produces these small cabbage-like heads, belonging to the Brassicaceae family.

    "The farmer planted rows of Brussels sprouts in anticipation of the autumn harvest."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, where the vegetable was popularized and extensively cultivated during the late 16th century, combined with sprout, referring to a newly grown bud or shoot of a plant.

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