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Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
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cabbage
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Word definitions for cabbage in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cabbage \Cab"bage\, n. Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., caboge , from Middle French caboche "head" (in dialect, "cabbage"), from Old French caboce "head," a diminutive from Latin caput "head" (see capitulum ). Introduced to Canada 1541 by Jacques Cartier on his third voyage. First written record of ...
Usage examples of cabbage.
Tell the cook to prepare cabbage soup and aforce the stew with barley.
Careful not to step on the pumpkin vine, Amelle walked into the middle of the garden where the cabbage plants grew.
Never mind, I had an established asparagus bed so I would be able to cut asparagus for our meals, also I could harvest early lettuce, broccoli and radishes, leeks and spring cabbages, winter cauliflower and winter spinach.
Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.
In many areas they have become one of the most effective, as well as safest, ways to take care of pest problems like cutworms, armyworms, root maggots, borers, Wireworms and cabbage white caterpillars.
Leaving trim lawns, a forest of box-trees, budding roses and peonies, well-grown early brocoli and York cabbages behind, we drove through a country of eternal little fields and grey stone walls.
The leaves of the common white Cabbage, when gently bruised and applied to a blistered surface, will promote a free discharge, as also when laid next the skin in dropsy of the ankles.
For the purulent scrofulous ophthalmic inflammation of infants, by cleansing the eyes thoroughly every half-hour with warm water, and then packing the sockets each time with fresh Cabbage leaves cleaned and bruised to a soft pulp, the flow of matter will be increased for a few days, but a cure will be soon effected.
Externally, the bruised leaves are of excellent service for cleansing and stimulating foul sores and ulcers, being first macerated in a Cabbage leaf with warmth.
When I was little, I picked the grubs off the caulies and cabbages at the back of the garden.
First the bowls were filled with the steaming cawl, and then the wooden platters were heaped with the pink slices of home-cured bacon, and mashed up cabbages.
The black mucky soil sprouted string beans in pale green clusters their pods felt sticky and furry to Prospero as he bent down to look at them the delicate ferny tops of carrots, big clumpish cabbages, and tomato vines on leaning crutches.
He had put down some acres of cabbage for spring feed for his small flock during the lambing season, but a cruciferous crop asks for moisture.
As members of the cabbage family, cruciferous vegetables are extremely low in calories, high in fiber, and have high levels of antioxidants.
If these are got rid of by brisk boiling in at least two waters, then cabbage is a fairly wholesome and digestible dish for the average stomach.