cauliflower

Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.

The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.

The swelling of a cauliflower ear.

His ears were small (fortunately so, given his dramatic hairstyle) and bore no traditional cauliflowers.

To (cause to) swell up like a cauliflower ear.

I noticed his right ear was badly cauliflowered and that explained a number of things. It wasn't a new job of cauliflowering.

Returning to your first point, the cauliflowering of magnesite bricks — we presume that this is due to your using high concentrations of oxygen for blowing the furnace, giving high checker-temperatures.