Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea.
- noun A young cabbage cut before the head is formed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.
- noun Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.
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- noun A plant of the genus
Brassica ; now specifically, a Brassica plant without ahead used for food, such askale .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
Etymologies
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Examples
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The original of all the cabbage tribe is the wild plant sea-colewort, which is to be found wasting whatever sweetness it may have on the desert air, on many of the cliffs of the south coast of England.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The original of all the cabbage tribe is the wild plant sea-colewort, which is to be found wasting whatever sweetness it may have on the desert air, on many of the cliffs of the south coast of England.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore? — and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”
The Abbot 2008
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In the meanwhile, Catherine continued to place upon the table the slender preparations for the meal of a recluse, which consisted almost entirely of colewort, boiled and served up in a wooden platter, having no better seasoning than a little salt, and no better accompaniment than some coarse barley-bread, in very moderate quantity.
The Abbot 2008
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For if it be said that there is enmity between the vine and colewort, because when planted near each other they do not thrive, the reason is obvious — that both of these plants are succulent and exhaust the ground, and thus one robs the other.
The New Organon 2005
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The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; i.e., the stalk of a colewort or cabbage.
Rob Roy 2005
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Milnwood, placed on the table an immense charger of broth, thickened with oatmeal and colewort, in which ocean of liquid was indistinctly discovered, by close observers, two or three short ribs of lean mutton sailing to and fro.
Old Mortality 2004
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Close to the waterside a footpath led off downstream, and beside it the abbey's gardens lay neatly arrayed all along the rich plain, and three or four brothers were pricking out plants of cabbage and colewort.
The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986
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All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower, brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Florence Daniel
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In these beds, along with the tobacco, they generally sow kale, colewort, and cabbage seed, &c., at the same time.
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