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views updated May 18 2018cab·bage / ˈkabij/ •
n. a cultivated plant (Brassica oleracea) eaten as a vegetable, having thick green or purple leaves surrounding a spherical heart or head of young leaves. The cabbage family (Cruciferae, or Brassicaceae) includes the mustards and cresses together with many ornamentals (candytuft, alyssum, stocks, nasturtiums, wallflowers). ∎ the leaves of this plant, eaten as a vegetable. ∎ inf. paper money. DERIVATIVES: cab·bage·y adj.
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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views updated May 23 2018cabbage Leaves of
Brassica oleracea capitata. A 100‐g portion (boiled) is a rich
source of vitamin C; a good source of folate; a source of vitamin B
1; provides 2 g of dietary fibre; supplies 15 kcal (65 kJ). See also
collard;
sauerkraut;
savoy;
spring greens.
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition DAVID A. BENDER
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views updated May 17 2018CABBAGE
CABBAGE , vegetable known in rabbinic literature as keruv, i.e., kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala). Highly regarded for nutritive and medicinal purposes (Ber. 44b), its leaves were eaten raw or boiled (ibid. 38b), its stem, called isparagos in the Mishnah (Ned. 6:10), being likewise used as food. In addition to kale which was grown as a perennial, garden cabbage, called teruvtor in the Mishnah, was also cultivated (Kil. 1:3).
bibliography:
Loew, Flora, 1 (1926), 482–7; J. Feliks, Kilei Zera'im… (1967), 80ff. add. bibliography: Feliks, Ha-Ẓome'aḥ, 86, 174.
[Jehuda Feliks]
Encyclopaedia Judaica Feliks, Jehuda
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views updated May 18 2018cabbage Low, stout vegetable of the genus Brassica. Members include
Brussels sprouts, cauliflowers, broccoli, kohlrabi and turnips. They are biennials that produce ‘heads’ one year and flowers the next. The common cabbage (B. oleracea capitata) has an edible head and large, fleshy leaves. Family Brassicaceae/Cruciferae.
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views updated May 09 2018cabbage 2 shreds of cloth cut off by tailors and kept as a perquisite. XVII (also
garbage,
carbage). of unkn. orig.
Hence
cabbage vb. pilfer, crib. XVIII.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
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views updated May 29 2018cabbage 1 green vegetable with a round heart. XIV. Earliest forms
cabache,
-oche — (O)F.
caboche head, Picard var. of OF.
caboce, of unkn. orig.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
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views updated May 18 2018 A Dictionary of Plant Sciences MICHAEL ALLABY