Cabbage

[cab·bage]

Cabbage is a vegetable with thick, lettuce like leaves. You can grow both green and purple cabbage in your garden.

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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.

Noun
any of various types of cabbage

Noun
any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers

Noun
informal terms for money

Verb
make off with belongings of others

n.
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.

n.
The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.

n.
The cabbage palmetto. See below.

v. i.
To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.

v. i.
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.

n.
Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

Cabbage

Cab"bage , n. [OE. cabage, fr. F. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cobus 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 Chiff, Cape.] (Bot.) 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 (Zo'94l.), a green plant-louse (Aphis brassic'91) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage. -- Cabbage Beetle (Zo'94l.), 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 butterfly (Zo'94l.), a white butterfly (Pieris rap'91 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. -- Cabbage Fly (Zo'94l.), a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia brassic'91), 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 (Bot.), 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. -- Cabbage worm (Zo'94l.), 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 larv'91 of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. -- Sea cabbage.(Bot.) (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.

Cabbage

Cab"bage, v. i. To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage. Johnson.

Cabbage

Cab"bage, v. i. [imp. & p.p Cabbaged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cabbaging .] [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.

Cabbage

Cab"bage, n. Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

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.

To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.

To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.

Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

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Usage Examples

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

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Other Usage Examples

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.