romanesco
/ɹəʊ.məˈnɛs.kəʊ/US/ɹoʊ.məˈnɛs.koʊ/
romanesco is the alternative letter-case form of Romanesco.
Noun capitalized: Romanesco
Romanesco (countable and uncountable, plural Romanescos)
- Romanesco broccoli, a light-green edible flower bud of certain forms of Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, which is thus related to broccoli and cauliflower. Its form is a natural approximation of a fractal.
- To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, in Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN
- The broccolo romanesco, once found only in Rome, is now being cultivated in Brittany and elsewhere, and people who had never heard of it a few years ago feel free to change its name to romanesco, as in, 'I bought a nice romanesco at the market; now what do I do with it?' (Actually for years Roman...2010, Maureen B. Fant, “The Italian Language of Food: Notes from a Translator”, in Richard Hosking, editor, Food and Language: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking 2009, Totnes...
Proper noun capitalized: Romanesco
Romanesco
Forms of romanesco
| plural | romanescos |
|---|---|
| plural | Romanescos |
| alternative form | romanesco |
Origin of romanesco
Borrowed from Italian romanesco (“of or pertaining to Rome”).
Questions about romanesco
- What does romanesco mean?
- Romanesco means romanesco broccoli, a light-green edible flower bud of certain forms of Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, which is thus related to broccoli and cauliflower. Its form is a natural approximation of a fractal.
- What is romanesco the alternative letter-case form of?
- Romanesco is the alternative letter-case form of Romanesco.
- What part of speech is romanesco?
- Romanesco can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce romanesco?
- Romanesco is pronounced /ɹəʊ.məˈnɛs.kəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of romanesco?
- The plural of romanesco is romanescos.
Words near romanesco in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: romanesco (page history and authors); Romanesco (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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