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  • noun Plural form of cauliflower.

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Examples

  • Aloo gobhi or potato and cauliflowers is sposedly the nightmare of every punjabi gal of marriageable age.

    Archive 2006-02-01 bilbo 2006

  • Aloo gobhi or potato and cauliflowers is sposedly the nightmare of every punjabi gal of marriageable age.

    Aloo gobhi - with a slight twist ( or as they say in hindi, zara hatke) bilbo 2006

  • The French maintain that it comes from Cyprus and in days of yore called cauliflowers choux de Chypre - Cyprus cabbages.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk Rick Peters 2010

  • This would be the case, not only with flowers, but with all the tender kinds of plants, such as cauliflowers, and, therefore, the young gardener must keep his "weather eye" open, as the sailors say, and not be too much in

    The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin

  • Though I was unwillingly bound to confess that even the old Rose windows disappointed me, the bunch of glaring cauliflowers which is the new western Rose is worse than anything in any building of this size and general beauty.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • Sainsbury's decision last month to drop plans for a healthy-eating Halloween campaign featuring "zombie brain" cauliflowers, "witch's fingers" carrots and "ogre's toenail" cucumbers, for fear staff might be prosecuted, did not exactly help.

    The Guardian World News 2008

  • Reuters A woman holds up cauliflowers at a stall inside a market in Shanghai.

    Stage Set for China to Launch Stimulus Bob Davis 2011

  • Mr. Kaundinya said development of as many as 10 GM crops, including rice, maize, groundnut, tomatoes and cauliflowers, will be hit by the order as they were in various stages of field trials, after obtaining clearance from the federal committee.

    Longer Approval Process to Hit India GM Crop Trials Biman Mukherji 2011

  • So I used a pot that had nothing in it, bought some organic potting mix and planted a few cauliflowers in the pot.

    Irene Rubaum-Keller: What Went Right in 2011? Irene Rubaum-Keller 2011

  • I found that if I started out with symmetrical patterns, I ended up with ever-changing arrangements of squares that had fractal geometry, where the same kind of structure can be seen on all scales think clouds and cauliflowers so that the patterns look the same, even if you magnify them.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

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