Main Entry: broccoli rabe
Pronunciation: -"räb
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps modification of Italian broccoli di rapa, literally, flowering tops of the turnip
Date: 1976
: a garden brassica (Brassica rapa ruvo) that is related to the turnip and produces edible leafy branching stalks and compact clusters of yellow florets -- called also broccoli raab \-"r@b, -"rab\, rapini

calabrese
A type of broccoli bearing clusters of blue-green to dark-green flower buds.
(Italian, Calabrian, from Calabria)


formerly known as etaoin...