calabrese

calabrese (countable and uncountable, plural calabreses)

1. A particular type of sprouting broccoli.
   • 2007, Gregory Holyoake, Scarecrows, page 171:

     Jean Bean was responsible for the twenty comical characters protecting transplanted cabbages, cauliflowers and calabreses.

   • 2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, →ISBN:

     Although most people don't make much distinction between calabrese and broccoli, gardeners need to know the difference. Calabrese is a quick-growing crop, usually maturing in three or four months, and the plants aren't frost hardy.

   • 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, →ISBN:

     Sow calabrese indoors.

   • 2015, Mark Diacono, The New Kitchen Garden, →ISBN:

     Some things I'm prepared to persevere with but my patience has an elastic limit and with calabrese it snapped.

• creasable, scareable

Calabria +‎ -ese

• IPA^(key): /ka.laˈbre.ze/
• Hyphenation: ca‧la‧bré‧se

calabrese (masculine and feminine plural calabresi)

1. Calabrian

calabrese m (plural calabresi)

1. Calabrian (male)

calabrese f (plural calabresi)

1. Calabrian (female)

• calabro

• Calabria

• English: Calabrese