calabrese

See also: Calabrese

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæləˈbɹeɪzeɪ/, /kæləˈbɹeɪseɪ/, /ˈkæləbɹiːz/

Noun

calabrese (countable and uncountable, plural calabreses)

  1. A particular type of sprouting broccoli.
    • 2007, Gregory Holyoake, Scarecrows, page 171:
      Jean Bean was responsible for the twenty comical characters protecting transplanted cabbages, cauliflowers and calabreses.
    • 2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, →ISBN:
      Although most people don't make much distinction between calabrese and broccoli, gardeners need to know the difference. Calabrese is a quick-growing crop, usually maturing in three or four months, and the plants aren't frost hardy.
    • 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, →ISBN:
      Sow calabrese indoors.
    • 2015, Mark Diacono, The New Kitchen Garden, →ISBN:
      Some things I'm prepared to persevere with but my patience has an elastic limit and with calabrese it snapped.

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Italian

Etymology

From Calabria + -ese.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.laˈbre.ze/, (traditional) /ka.laˈbre.se/[1]
  • Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ese
  • Hyphenation: ca‧la‧bré‧se

Adjective

calabrese (plural calabresi)

  1. Calabrian (of, from or relating to Calabria)
    Synonym: calabro

Descendants

  • English: Calabrese

Noun

calabrese m or f by sense (plural calabresi)

  1. Calabrian (native or inhabitant of Calabria)
    Synonym: calabro

Noun

calabrese m (uncountable)

  1. the Calabrian language or set of dialects

References

  1. calabrese in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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