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noun

a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.

Also, broccoli raab

[rahb] , broccoli rab

[rahb] .

Also called Italian turnip, raab, turnip broccoli.

Origin:
perhaps alteration of Italian broccoli di rapa flowering tops of the turnip

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broccoli rabe
noun
1.	plant grown for its pungent edible leafy shoots [syn: broccoli raab]
2.	slightly bitter dark green leaves and clustered flower buds

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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