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colliflower

colliflower is the obsolete form of cauliflower.

Meaning of cauliflower

Noun

cauliflower (countable and uncountable, plural cauliflowers)

  1. Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
    • ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […] , page 326
  2. The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
  3. The swelling of a cauliflower ear.
    • His ears were small (fortunately so, given his dramatic hairstyle) and bore no traditional cauliflowers.2018, John Harding, The Whitechapel Whirlwind: The Jack Kid Berg Story

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Forms of colliflower

pluralcolliflowers

Questions about colliflower

What is colliflower the obsolete form of?
Colliflower is the obsolete form of cauliflower.

Words near colliflower in the dictionary

  1. collies
  2. collieshangie
  3. collieshangies
  4. colliest
  5. colliferous
  6. colliflower
  7. colliflowers
  8. colliform
  9. colligability
  10. colligable
  11. Colligan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colliflower (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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