Word Meanings - CABBAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The

Additional info about word: CABBAGE

chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 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 , a green plant-louse which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage. -- Cabbage Beetle , 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 butterfly , a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, below. -- Cabbage Fly , a small two-winged fly , 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 found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose , a species of rose 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. -- Cabbage worm , the larva of several species of moths and butterfies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is usully the larva of a white butterfly. See Cabbage Butterfly, above. The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks or young plants during the night, are the larvæ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. -- Sea cabbage. Sea kale . The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, cauliflower, , broccoli, etc., have been derived by cultivation. -- Thousand-headed cabbage. See Brussels sprouts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CABBAGE)

• Pilfer
• Abstract
• peculate
• filch
• purloin
• smuggle
• cabbage
• steal
• thieve

Related words: (words related to CABBAGE)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• THIEVE
  To practice theft; to steal. (more info) Etym:
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• PURLOINER
  One who purloins. Swift.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• PURLOIN
  To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin
• CABBAGE
  chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• PILFERING
  Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• FILCHER
  One who filches; a thief.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• PILFERER
  One who pilfers; a petty thief.
• PILFER
  To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym:
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
• PAROSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.