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Brassica :: Brassica (n.) A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc..

Caul :: Caul (n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth..

Tigella :: Tigella (n.) That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.

Cauliflower :: Cauliflower (n.) An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable..

Coleorhiza :: Coleorhiza (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle..

Broccoli :: Broccoli (n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The curd, or flowering head, is the part used for food..

Stemlet :: Stemless (a.) Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.

Cohosh :: Cohosh (n.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family..

Henbit :: Henbit (n.) A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.

Colliflower :: Colliflower (n.) See Cauliflower.

Cauliculus :: Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian..

Acaulescent :: Acaulescent (a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground..

Semiamplexicaul :: Semiamplexicaul (a.) Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf..

Caules :: Caules (pl. ) of Cauli.

Helix :: Helix (n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

Caulescent :: Caulescent (a.) Having a leafy stem.

Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion..

Pipewort :: Pipewort (n.) Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.

Caulis :: Caulis (n.) An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers..

Curd :: Curd (n.) The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower..

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