collardn.
/ˈkɒləd/, U.S. /ˈkɑlərd/ dialect and U.S.
A variety of cabbage which does not heart; = colewort n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > without heart
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1755 Connoisseur No. 91 (1774) III. 148 Fed for cheapness with nothing but collart-leaves and chopt straw.
1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 71 The turnips being sold off in autumn and replaced by collards.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. 264/1 Collard, Colewort. East.
1881 Oxfordsh. Gloss. Suppl. Collets, small spring cabbage.]
1883 C. F. Smith Southernisms in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 46 In the South no word, as no dish, is better known among the poorer whites and negroes than collards or greens.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Colluts, young cabbages.
1890 Correspt. ‘Well known in Essex’; cf.]
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