calabrese

plural calabreses

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Calabrese (“a particular type of sprouting broccoli”).

   Sow calabrese indoors.

   2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, →ISBN

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   Jean Bean was responsible for the twenty comical characters protecting transplanted cabbages, cauliflowers and calabreses.

   2007, Gregory Holyoake, Scarecrows, page 171

   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, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, →ISBN

   Some things I'm prepared to persevere with but my patience has an elastic limit and with calabrese it snapped.

   2015, Mark Diacono, The New Kitchen Garden, →ISBN

1. not comparableCalabrian (of, from, or pertaining to Calabria)

plural Calabresi

1. UKcountableuncountableA kind of sprouting broccoli.
2. countableellipsisuncountableThe Calabrese horse.
3. countableuncountablebeveragesNero d’Avola or Sangiovese, varieties of wine grapes.

1. A surname from Italian.