couve

• IPA^(key): /kuv/
• Homophones: couves, couvent

couve

1. inflection of couver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

 

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

couve

Wikipedia ^pt

 

From Old Galician-Portuguese couve, from earlier *coue, from Latin caulis (“stem of a cabbage”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”). Doublet of caule.

• Hyphenation: cou‧ve

couve f (plural couves)

1. several leaf vegetables, from the family Brassica oleracea
2. kale (plant)
3. cabbage (plant)

   Synonym: repolho

4. collard greens (plant)

   Synonym: couve-galega

5. couves (small truck on horse or rope hauled railway)

• crucíferas, brassicáceas

• caule
• chucrute
• couval