brussels sprouts

1. 1.

   the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant

   Broadercruciferous vegetable

   Part ofbrussels sprout

   plural

Questions about brussels sprouts

What does brussels sprouts mean?

brussels sprouts means "the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant".

Is brussels sprouts a common word?

brussels sprouts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.