An alternate or archaic spelling of broccoli, the green cruciferous vegetable with flowering heads.
From Italian 'broccoli,' plural of 'brocco' (sprout), derived from Latin 'broccus' (projecting). The variant spelling 'brocoli' appeared before standardization of English vegetable terminology.
Different spellings of 'broccoli' show English struggling to adopt Italian words—we couldn't decide whether to keep the Italian plural form or make it singular, and different versions persisted until modern standardization settled it.
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