'Brussels sprouts' definitions:
Definition of 'brussels sprouts'
(from WordNet)
noun
The small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
Definition of 'Brussels sprouts'
From: GCIDE
- Sprout \Sprout\, n. [Cf. AS. sprote a sprout, sprig; akin to Icel. sproti, G. sprosse. See Sprout, v. i.]
- 1. The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Brussels sprouts'
From: GCIDE
- Brussels \Brussels\ prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Belgium. Population (2000) = 949,070 (metro). It has given its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc. [PJC]
- Brussels carpet, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern.
- Brussels ground, a name given to the handmade ground of real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the extreme fineness of the threads.
- Brussels lace, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.
- Brussels net, an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery.
- Brussels point. See Point lace.
- Brussels sprouts (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage.
- Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched. [1913 Webster]