Romanesco

Romanesco englanniksi

1. (w), a light-green edible flower bud of certain forms of (taxlink), which is thus related to broccoli and cauliflower. Its form is a natural approximation of a fractal.

2. (quote-book) The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.

3. (quote-book) Calling it simply ''romanesco'' is like calling French fries 'French.' This is serious because ''romanesco'' is needed to modify artichokes and zucchini, for which it indicates both local cultivation and a specific variety of vegetable – striated, firm ''zucchine romanesche'' and the large globe artichokes known as ''carciofi romaneschi''.

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5. (quote-journal) (Gardening)|date=26 January 2015|passage=Romanesco was my gateway cauli and I've never stopped growing it. Not a variety as much as its own thing, Romanesco is a cauliflower to the French, a calabrese to the Italians. (..) Visually, it may be the most remarkable thing you can gro it is made up of lime-green mini-spirals that coil around themselves in fractal formation.

6. The dialect of the Italian language spoken in Rome.