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CABBAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various types of cabbage
Synonyms:
cabbage; chou
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cabbage" is a kind of...):
cruciferous vegetable (a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabbage"):
cole; kail; kale (coarse curly-leafed cabbage)
celery cabbage; Chinese cabbage; Chinese celery (elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves)
bok choi; bok choy (elongated head of dark green leaves on thick white stalks)
head cabbage (any of several varieties of cabbage having a large compact globular head; may be steamed or boiled or stir-fried or used raw in coleslaw)
Holonyms ("cabbage" is a part of...):
Brassica oleracea; cabbage; cultivated cabbage (any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
Synonyms:
Brassica oleracea; cabbage; cultivated cabbage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cabbage" is a kind of...):
crucifer; cruciferous plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae)
Meronyms (parts of "cabbage"):
cabbage; chou (any of various types of cabbage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabbage"):
Brassica oleracea capitata; head cabbage; head cabbage plant (any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves)
Holonyms ("cabbage" is a member of...):
Brassica; genus Brassica (mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Informal terms for money
Synonyms:
boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("cabbage" is a kind of...):
money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)
Derivation:
cabbage (make off with belongings of others)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make off with belongings of others
Synonyms:
abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "cabbage" is one way to...):
rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sentence example:
They cabbage the goods
Derivation:
cabbage (informal terms for money)
Context examples:
DIM is found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale.
(DIM, NCI Dictionary)
Diindolylmethane is found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale.
(Diindolylmethane, NCI Dictionary)
But the huntsman had heard all they said; and as soon as they were gone, he climbed to the top of the mountain, and when he had sat there a short time a cloud came rolling around him, and caught him in a whirlwind and bore him along for some time, till it settled in a garden, and he fell quite gently to the ground amongst the greens and cabbages.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Little Teddy bore a charmed life, for nothing ever happened to him, and Jo never felt any anxiety when he was whisked up into a tree by one lad, galloped off on the back of another, or supplied with sour russets by his indulgent papa, who labored under the Germanic delusion that babies could digest anything, from pickled cabbage to buttons, nails, and their own small shoes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
