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| the leaves of the turnip, Brassica rapa, eaten cooked or raw as greens. |
| broccoli raab or broccoli rabe (räb) n. A vegetable plant (Brassica rapa) related to the turnip and grown for its pungent leafy shoots. Also called rapini. [Italian broccoli di rapa : broccoli, pl. diminutive of brocco, sprout, shoot; see broccoli + di, of (from Latin dē; see de-) + rapa, turnip; see rape2.] |
| ra·pi·ni (rā-pē'nē) n. See broccoli raab. [Italian, pl. diminutive of rapa, turnip, from Latin rāpa, pl. of rāpum.] |
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