cabbage : Idioms & Phrases

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Cabbage aphis

  • (Zoöl.), a green plant-louse (Aphis brassicæ) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
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cabbage bark

  • noun tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
    Andira inermis; cabbage bark; cabbage tree.
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Cabbage Beetle

  • (Zoöl.), 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.
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Cabbage butterfly

  • noun white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage
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  • (Zoöl.), a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, below.
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Cabbage Fly

  • (Zoöl.), 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.
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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.
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cabbage palm

  • noun low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds
    Sabal palmetto; cabbage palm.
  • noun West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
    Roystonea oleracea.
  • noun Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
    Livistona australis; cabbage palm.
  • noun Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young
    Euterpe oleracea.
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Cabbage palmetto

  • noun low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds
    Sabal palmetto; cabbage palm.
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  • a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida.
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Cabbage rose

  • (Bot.), a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and heavy blossoms.
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cabbage tree

  • noun Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
    Livistona australis; cabbage palm.
  • noun tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
    Andira inermis; cabbage bark; cabbage tree.
  • noun elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand
    Cordyline australis; grass tree.
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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.
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Cabbage worm

  • (Zoöl.), the larva of several species of moths and butterfies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is usully the larva of a white butterfly. See Cabbage Butterfly, above. The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks or young plants during the night, are the larvæ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm.
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cabbage-bark tree

  • noun tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
    Andira inermis; cabbage bark; cabbage tree.
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celery cabbage

  • noun plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia
    pe-tsai; Brassica rapa pekinensis; celery cabbage; napa.
  • noun elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves
    Chinese celery; celery cabbage.
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chinese cabbage

  • noun plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia
    pe-tsai; Brassica rapa pekinensis; celery cabbage; napa.
  • noun elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves
    Chinese celery; celery cabbage.
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chinese white cabbage

  • noun Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves
    pak choi; bok choy; Brassica rapa chinensis; pakchoi; bok choi.
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cultivated cabbage

  • noun any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
    Brassica oleracea; cabbage.
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Dog cabbage, ∨ Dog's cabbage

  • (Bot.), a succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region (Thelygonum Cynocrambe).
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Harlequin cabbage bug

  • . (Zoöl.) See Calicoback.
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head cabbage

  • noun any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves
    head cabbage; Brassica oleracea capitata.
  • noun any of several varieties of cabbage having a large compact globular head; may be steamed or boiled or stir-fried or used raw in coleslaw
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head cabbage plant

  • noun any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves
    head cabbage; Brassica oleracea capitata.
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john's cabbage

  • noun showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States
    Shawnee salad; Hydrophyllum virginianum; Indian salad; shawny; Virginia waterleaf.
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Palm cabbage

  • the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food.
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red cabbage

  • noun cabbage plant with a compact head of reddish purple leaves
  • noun compact head of purplish-red leaves
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savoy cabbage

  • noun cabbage plant with a compact head of crinkled leaves
  • noun head of soft crinkly leaves
    savoy.
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Sea cabbage

  • .(Bot.) (a) Sea kale (b). The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, cauliflower, , broccoli, etc., have been derived by cultivation.
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Sea-otter's cabbage

  • (Bot.), a gigantic kelp of the Pacific Ocean (Nereocystis Lutkeana). See Nereocystis.
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Skunk cabbage

  • noun deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
    foetid pothos; polecat weed; Symplocarpus foetidus.
  • noun clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
    Lysichiton americanum.
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  • (Bot.), an American aroid herb (Symplocarpus f&oe;tidus>) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves. It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called swamp cabbage.
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southern cabbage butterfly

  • noun common North American form of cabbage butterfly
    Pieris protodice.
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stuffed cabbage

  • noun parboiled head of cabbage scooped out and filled with a hash of chopped e.g. beef or ham and baked; served with tomato or cheese sauce
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Swamp cabbage

  • (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
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Thousand-headed cabbage

  • . See Brussels sprouts.
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turnip cabbage

  • noun a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
    rutabaga plant; rutabaga; Brassica napus napobrassica; Swedish turnip; swede.
  • noun fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant
    kohlrabi.
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water cabbage

  • noun pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
    pistia; Pistia stratiotes; water lettuce; Pistia stratoites.
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wild cabbage

  • noun wild original of cultivated cabbages; common in western coastal Europe
    Brassica oleracea.
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