kohlrabi
pronunciation
How to pronounce kohlrabi in British English:
UK [ˌkəʊlˈrɑ:bi]
How to pronounce kohlrabi in American English:
US [ˌkoʊlˈrɑbi]
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- Noun:
- plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem
- fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant
Word Origin
- kohlrabi
- kohlrabi: see cauliflower, rape
- kohlrabi (n.)
- also kohl-rabi, kohl rabi, kind of cabbage, 1807, from German Kohlrabi (16c.), from Italian cavoli rape, plural of cavolo rapo "cole-rape;" see cole + rape (n.2). Form influenced in German by German kohl "cabbage."
Example
- 1. Slices mixed with other root vegetables like radish , beets , tomato , kohlrabi or with greens in mixed salads .
- 2. A cousin of cabbage and broccoli , kohlrabi is turnip-like root vegetable that is either light green or purple and white striped .
- 3. Vegetables , preserved vegetable , kohlrabi , turnip ( radishes ) .
- 4. There is no significant differece in time between mechanical and labor transplanting of kohlrabi and head lettuce .
- 5. They belong to the cabbage or coal cole family . Other members include cabbage , collards , brussels sprouts , kale and kohlrabi .