cabbage

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• Cabbage

  ·noun The cabbage palmetto. ·see <<Below>>. II. Cabbage ·vi To form a head like that the cabbage; a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cabbage

  Cloth, stuff, or silkpurloined by laylors from their employers, which they deposit in a place called...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cabbage

  Those principally useful to the seaman are the esculent cabbage-tree (Areca oleracea), which attains...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Sea cabbage

  ·- ·see Sea kale, under <<Kale>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cabbage garden

  a name applied to the colony of Victoria by Sir John Robertson, the Premier of New South Wales,in co...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cabbage-palm

  n. same as cabbage-tree1 (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cabbage-tree

  n 1) Name given to various palmtrees of which the heart of the young leaves is eaten like thehead o...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• maori-cabbage

  n. the wild cabbage of NewZealand, Brassica spp., N.O. Cruciferae, said tobe descended from the cab...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• native cabbage

  n. The Nasturtiumpalustre, De C., N.O. Cruciferae, is so called,but in spite of its name it is not ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• palm, cabbage

  n. i.q. Cabbage-tree (q.v.) ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• skunk cabbage

  (Lat. Ictodes foetidus.) A strong-scented, repulsive plant, exceedingly meritorious of the name it b...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cabbage-tree mob

  and Cabbagites obsolete Australian slang for modern Larrikins (q.v)., becausewearing cabbage-tree h...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris