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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
cabbage
n 1: any of various types of cabbage [syn: cabbage, chou]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch,
shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
3: any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown
for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: cabbage,
cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea]
v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer,
cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf,
swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cabbage \Cab"bage\ (k[a^]b"b[asl]j), n. [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.] (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.
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2. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like,
cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
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3. The cabbage palmetto. See below.
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Cabbage aphis (Zool.), a green plant-louse (Aphis
brassic[ae]) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
Cabbage beetle (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia
brassic[ae]), 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.
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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cabbage \Cab"bage\, v. i.
To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce
cabbage. --Johnson.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cabbage \Cab"bage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabbaged (-b[asl]jd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Cabbaging (-b[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [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.
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Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth.
--Arbuthnot.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cabbage \Cab"bage\, n.
Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out
garments.
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6. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and
wise as a man's head.
The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending
the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire
consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the
cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of
state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that
several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his
murmuring subjects were appeased.
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Thesaurus Results for cabbage:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Irish potato, Kraut, aubergine, beans, blunt, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, chips, dinero, dough, eggplant, gelt, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, greens, jack, kale, legumes, love apple, mad apple, mazuma, moolah, mopus, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pieplant, potato, potherbs, produce, rhino, rhubarb, rocks, shekels, simoleons, spondulics, spud, sugar, tater, the needful, tin, tomato, vegetables, wampum, white potato |
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