cabbage

A vegetable with many thick leaves packed together, eaten raw or cooked.

• We had cabbage soup for lunch.
• She shredded the cabbage for a salad.
• Do you prefer red or green cabbage?

Similar words: cole, greens

Common phrases: red cabbage, cabbage soup

A plant variety in the group that includes ordinary leafy heads, broccoli, and cauliflower.

• This cabbage variety is grown for its striking leaves.
• The botanist compared several cabbage cultivars.
• These cabbages belong to the same species as broccoli.

Common phrases: ornamental cabbage, cabbage cultivar

To grow leaves that form a tight, rounded head.

• The lettuce began to cabbage in early summer.
• These plants cabbage well in cool weather.
• The gardener waited for the young lettuces to cabbage.

Similar words: head

Common phrases: lettuce cabbage, begin to cabbage