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- noun Plural form of
borecole .
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Examples
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Brussels sprouts are the most delicate of all the borecoles, and it is a thousand pities that this delightful vegetable is not more often to be met with.
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Brussels sprouts are the most delicate of all the borecoles, and it is
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Every one can appreciate the difference between green or red cabbages with great single heads; Brussel-sprouts with numerous little heads; broccolis and cauliflowers with the greater number of their flowers in an aborted condition, incapable of producing seed, and borne in a dense corymb instead of an open panicle; savoys with their blistered and wrinkled leaves; and borecoles and kales, which come nearest to the wild parent-form.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The post contains images of one of the most beautiful traditional Japanese gardens I ever saw and it is composed mainly of ... - borecoles.
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