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broccolo

noun
SayBROK-uh-lohUS/ˈbɹɑ.kə.loʊ/UK/ˈbɹɒ.kə.ləʊ/

1 meaning of broccolo

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    nounrare
    Rare form of broccoli.
    Some always suffer a bad hair day while others eat a broccolo
    2004, L.M. Boyd, Victoria Advocate
    Note

    English takes Italian's singular here for the moments when it wants to count: one broccolo, two broccoli. The everyday word is an Italian plural treated as English, so this form turns up where single plants or heads matter. The vegetable classes of The Otago Daily Times in 1927 list "Two broccoli" and "One broccolo" side by side. In ordinary use, broccoli serves for both one and many.

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Origin

Borrowed from Italian "broccolo," the singular of "broccoli."