cabbage
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Noun (3)cabbages
- any of various types of cabbageSynonyms: chouType of cruciferous vegetableKinds head cabbage, Chinese cabbage, bok choy, kalePart of cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea
- informal terms for moneySynonyms: boodlebreadclamsdinerodoughgeltkalelettucelollylucrelootmoolahpelfscratchshekelssimoleonssugarwampumType of money
- any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowersSynonyms: cultivated cabbageBrassica oleraceaType of crucifer, cruciferous plantKinds head cabbage, head cabbage plantParts chouMember of Brassica, genus Brassica
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Translations
Noun leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
- Spanish
- col
- French
- chou
- German
- Kohl
- Italian
- cavolo
- Portuguese
- repolho
- Turkish
- lahana
- Russian
- капу́ста kapústa
- Arabic
- مَلْفُوف malfūf
- Chinese
- 卷心菜 juǎnxīncài
- Japanese
- キャベツ kyabetsu
34 more languages
- Dutch
- kool
- Polish
- kapusta
- Swedish
- vitkål
- Greek
- λάχανο láchano
- Korean
- 양배추 yangbaechu
- Indonesian
- kubis
- Vietnamese
- bắp cải
- Hungarian
- káposzta
- Portuguese (PT)
- repolho
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 高麗菜 gāolìcài
- Albanian
- lakër
- Breton
- kaol
- Catalan
- col
- Czech
- zelí
- Danish
- kål
- Esperanto
- brasiko
- Estonian
- kapsas
- Finnish
- kaali
- Georgian
- კომბოსტო ḳombosṭo
- Hebrew
- כְּרוּב kruv
- Icelandic
- hvítkál
- Kurdish
- kelem
- Latvian
- kāposts
- Lithuanian
- kopūstas
- Malagasy
- laisoa
- Norwegian
- kål
- Romanian
- varză
- Scottish Gaelic
- càl
- Serbo-Croatian
- kupus
- Slovak
- kapusta
- Slovenian
- zelje
- Swahili
- kabichi
- Welsh
- bresychen
- Yiddish
- קרויט kroyt
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. cabage, fr. F. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa cape. See Chief, Cape.
Botany 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
2. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
3. The cabbage palmetto. See below.
Cabbage aphis Zoology, a green plant-louse (Aphis brassicæ) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage. — Cabbage beetle Zoology, a small, striped flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) which lives, in the larval state, on the roots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage and other cruciferous plants. — Cabbage fly Zoology, a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia brassicæ), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop. — Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; — contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. — Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. — Cabbage rose Botany, a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and heavy blossoms. — Cabbage tree, Cabbage palm, a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the Sabal Palmetto of the United States, and the Euterpe oleracea and Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies. — Sea cabbage.Botany (a) Sea kale (b). The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc., have been derived by cultivation. — Thousand-headed cabbage. See Brussels sprouts.
To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage. Dr. Samuel Johnson
Origin: F.cabasser, fr. OF. cabas theft; cf. F. cabas basket, and OF. cabuser to cheat.
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
Your tailor... cabbages whole yards of cloth.— John Arbuthnot
Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54