Brussels sprouts : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Brussels sprouts	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Brussels sprouts
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
brussels sprouts n the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. pl. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. --Johnson. {Brussels sprouts} (Bot.) See under {Brussels}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Brussels \Brus"sels\, n. A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc. {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 {Brussels lace}, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.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 [bd]sprouts,[b8] 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.