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Broccoli

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a green vegetable with a dense cluster of edible flower buds
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Stage 1 of 2
broccolo
Italian · 1600s
"a small sprout or shoot"
the flowering top of a cabbage, a diminutive of brocco (a small nail, sprout)
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Stage 2 of 2
broccoli
English · 1600s
"a green vegetable with edible flower heads"
adopted directly for the green vegetable
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