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Plural of cauliflower

regular plural

The plural of cauliflower is cauliflowers.

Forms of cauliflower

Singularcauliflower /ˈkɒl.i.flaʊ.ə/
Pluralcauliflowers
Countablecountable and uncountable

Cauliflowers in a sentence

  • 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
  • Jean Bean was responsible for the twenty comical characters protecting transplanted cabbages, cauliflowers and calabreses.2007, Gregory Holyoake, Scarecrows, page 171. From the entry calabrese
  • They exclaimed over teapots and dessertware in the forms of stylized cauliflowers, pineapples, cabbages, and Chinese melon-shaped winepots.1950, Jean Gorely, Wedgwood, New York, N.Y.: Gramercy Publishing Company, page 18. From the entry dessertware
  • Romanesco is slow to blow and more forgiving to grow than most cauliflowers, while being perhaps the most delicious and certainly the nuttiest-flavoured of the lot.2015 January 26, Mark Diacono, “How to grow and cook cauliflower, 2015's trendiest veg”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening). From the entry blow

Meaning of cauliflower

  1. noun Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
  2. noun The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
  3. noun The swelling of a cauliflower ear.

Full definition of cauliflower

Questions about the plural of cauliflower

What is the plural of cauliflower?
The plural of cauliflower is cauliflowers.
Is cauliflower countable?
Cauliflower is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cauliflower (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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