American Mikaela Shiffrin won for the third successive World Cup in Austria. With the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang looming next month, BBC Sport brings you a weekly round-up of the big stories in the build-up. Supreme Shiffrin continues domination
The noun BROCCOLI has 2 senses: 1. plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds. 2. branched green undeveloped flower heads. Familiarity information: BROCCOLI used as a noun is rare.
Gai lan (also written as kai-lan; Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra) is the Chinese name for a vegetable that is also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale. It is a leaf vegetable featuring thick, flat, glossy blue-green leaves with thick stems with flower heads, similar to but much smaller than broccoli. Broccoli and gai lan belong to the same species Brassica oleracea, but gai lan is in the group alboglabra (from Latin albus white and glabrus hairless). Its flavor is very similar to that of broccoli, but slightly more bitter. It is also noticeably stronger. 1 Hybrids.