broccoli rabe

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broccoli rabe

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Ultimately from Italian broccoli di rapa (“sprouts or stalks of the turnip”).

noun broccoli rabes · broccoli raab · broccoli rape

countable, uncountable Rapini, a leafy-green vegetable. She uses broccoli rabe instead of aka takana (spicy mustard greens), shops in the Caribbean markets of her Washington Heights neighborhood for batatas rather than Japanese satsumaimo (yellow sweet potatoes), and has learned to love the local mofongo, the Dominican version of mashed plantains with lo
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@misc{broccoli_rabe_2026,
  title = {broccoli rabe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/broccoli%20rabe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}