skunk cabbage

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• Skunk

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• skunk

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• Cabbage

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• cabbage

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

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• cabbage

  A cant word for shreds and patches made by tailors in cutting out clothes.--Todd. From this comes to...

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• cabbage

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

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• skunk-head

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• Sea cabbage

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• 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.). ...

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• 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

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• cabbage-tree mob

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

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