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A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
Answer for the clue "A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head ", 8 letters:
colewort
Word definitions for colewort in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colewort \Cole"wort`\, n. [AS. cawlwyrt; cawl cole + wyrt wort. Cf. Collards .] A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head. Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plant of the genus ''Brassica''; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head [syn: kale , kail , cole , borecole , Brassica oleracea acephala ]
Usage examples of colewort.
For the space also of six hundred years the colewort only was a medicine in Rome for all diseases, so that his virtues were thoroughly known in those parts.