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.
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["o]l.), a green plant-louse ({Aphis brassic[ae]}) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
{Cabbage beetle} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}.
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} (-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.
Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. --Arbuthnot.
Cabbage \Cab"bage\, n. Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
Some plants, like the cabbage family, need to be moved around from year to year to prevent disease.
On April 19, he said, a jogger was hit by a cabbage.
On newspapers, they had pieces of meat, cabbage and fish three to four inches long. That's their grocery store.
Mayor Chen Xitong called an emergency meeting Nov. 7 and issued orders that all public offices, schools, factories and army units were to stock up on cabbage.
I still recall triumphantly counting 17 pumpkin seeds on my plate of lettuce, beet and cabbage salad one evening. By day two, bets are being wagered that the solitary Englander is not going to make it, least of all with the cigarettes.
"Our research has shown that the wasps can provid a new way to reduce insect damage to cabbage, broccoli and other vegetables without using insecticides," said entomologist K. Duane Biever of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Vegetable growth was reported to be good in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, with harvests continuing for carrot, cabbage, celery and lettuce crops.
KFC actually buys more than 100 million pounds of cabbage each year.
'It could be a five-course lunch, but they are continually handing you documents while you get cabbage all over them,' Mr Gibson says. British clients of the US banks have now adopted some of their more ascetic and businesslike customs.
Rather than ruminate about politics, he prefers to contemplate the heft of a cabbage or the sweetness of a lettuce, raising his voice to be heard over the locusts' buzz.
Stock thought he might in future go to a typical German restaurant to sit between Scandinavians and Americans and eat tinned cabbage. The division between northern and southern Europe is based on consumer categories, mainly food.
English carrots are at 18-20p a lb, potatoes are 10-14p a lb, savoy cabbage is 25-35p a lb and English onions are 15-20p a lb. Tomatoes from Spania and the Canary Islands are plentiful this week at 65-75p a lb.
In this instance the Hatter's logic is faulty: you may see (or paint) your cabbage in the morning and eat it that night.
GENEVA, N.Y. _ Nation's first open-air field test of a genetically engineered virus for use as a pesticide on cabbage plants.
Cauliflower is good value at 55-70p each with Dutch and English cabbage at 20-30p a lb also excellent value.
New season summer cabbage at 30-35p a lb or 40-44p each is an excellent vegetable choice this week.
The garden in the city's South-Central area already has produced enough carrots, onions, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower to supply residents and just about anyone else who cares to sample the home-grown food.
When citrus was scarce during the war, the British government touted cabbage as a source of vitamin C. Maybe that's why many people in England shun cabbage still.
When citrus was scarce during the war, the British government touted cabbage as a source of vitamin C. Maybe that's why many people in England shun cabbage still.
In other ways, cabbage tries so hard to please.
All the recipes work and are refreshingly simple. There are two fish dishes with similar sauces - skate wing with a sherry vinegar sauce and savoy cabbage and turbot in cider vinegar sauce.
"People don't know what the products are," explained regional operations director Andy Rafalet. "Let's make the choice a little easier." Choice was easy at the salad bar: no lettuce, but lots of cabbage, a Soviet staple.
More of the leaves were scattered at marketplaces where families bought cartloads of cabbage, a staple they stack on their roofs or fire escapes and eat over the winter months.
Perhaps the variances are best illustrated by the cost of the traditional Christmas dinner: a goose, red cabbage, potatoes, bread, sweets and sparkling wine.
May God enlighten them," she murmured, picking at a lunch of lentils and rice, fried cauliflower and eggplant and cabbage salad.
Other Burpee introductions include butterhead lettuce from France, Japanese mustard green, bush shell beans from the Caribbean, and cabbage from Alsace-Lorraine.
Entitled 'saddle of hare Pojarski' and based on a recipe that was a great favourite with Tsar Nicholas I, it resembled a chess board with pyramid tops of cabbage and 'castles' made of red cabbage filled with a hare mousse.
Entitled 'saddle of hare Pojarski' and based on a recipe that was a great favourite with Tsar Nicholas I, it resembled a chess board with pyramid tops of cabbage and 'castles' made of red cabbage filled with a hare mousse.
In a country where nearly everything from cabbage to clothes is in short supply, high earners have more money than they can spend.
Before he arrived at the Capitol, Reagan paid a surprise visit to Ireland's Own, a noisy pub in suburban Alexandria, Va., where he sipped beer and sampled corned beef and cabbage with columnist James J. Kilpatrick.