Brussels sprouts Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
  2. noun plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages
    Brassica oleracea gemmifera; brussels sprout.

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  1. (Bot.) See under Brussels.
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  1. (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage.

Webster 1913