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cauliflowering

cauliflowering is the present participle and gerund of cauliflower.

Meaning of cauliflower

Verb

cauliflower (third-person singular simple present cauliflowers, present participle cauliflowering, simple past and past participle cauliflowered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) swell up like a cauliflower ear.
    • I noticed his right ear was badly cauliflowered and that explained a number of things. It wasn't a new job of cauliflowering.1947, Elliott Chaze, The Stainless Steel Kimono, page 49

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Questions about cauliflowering

What is cauliflowering the present participle and gerund of?
Cauliflowering is the present participle and gerund of cauliflower.

Words near cauliflowering in the dictionary

  1. cauliflower mushrooms
  2. cauliflower rice
  3. cauliflowered
  4. caulifloweret
  5. cauliflowerets
  6. cauliflowering
  7. cauliflowerlike
  8. cauliflowers
  9. cauliflowery
  10. cauliform
  11. cauligenous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cauliflowering (page history and authors); cauliflower (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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