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单词 cabbage
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Definition of cabbage in English:

cabbage

noun ˈkabɪdʒˈkæbɪdʒ
  • 1A cultivated plant eaten as a vegetable, having thick green or purple leaves surrounding a spherical heart or head of young leaves.

    Brassica oleracea, family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae; the cabbage family). As well as the brassicas, the members of this family (known as crucifers) include the mustards and cresses together with many ornamentals (candytuft, alyssum, stocks, nasturtiums, wallflowers)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Particularly good trap crops include: green lettuce, cabbage, calendula, marigolds, comfrey leaves, zinnias and beans.
    • The highland Nainokanoka area is well suited for growing potatoes, cabbages, and other vegetables.
    • In one of them, he urged his readers to plant the pine cabbage which stands unharmed through the icy Beijing winter, ready for use when the spring thaw arrives.
    • Should your fall planter need a bit of extra color or more filler plants, ornamental cabbages will be the perfect final touch.
    • In what may have been the key sequence of the day, his approach landed a few yards from the pin, but bounced hard, and settled in the cabbage behind the green.
    • It becomes some sort of plant, like a cabbage, but bigger and with way more leaves.
    • Other fields and cottage gardens grow grapevines on overhead trellises, the soil beneath the arches being densely planted with cabbages and other vegetables.
    • Vendors said they are expecting a further price increase in the coming fortnight because flood waters may have unleashed more damage to fragile cash crops as pak choy, lettuce, tomatoes, cabbages and peppers.
    • So far they have planted lettuce, cabbage, mustard, beetroot and pawpaw trees.
    • In the school's garden are giant tufts of spinach, green peppers and cabbages planted according to eco-friendly and sustainable permaculture principles.
    • But while they are growing he is cultivating the other cash crops including tomatoes, onions, cabbages, chilli peppers and coffee beans.
    • Rosemary, thyme and dill are also good decorative herbs to plant with cabbages.
    • To deter a whole range of insects that have an affinity for cabbages, practice good garden hygiene and rotate your crops.
    • We grow all manner of vegetables from cabbages and carrots to marrows.
    • At the top, she could not bear to look long at anything, the pond, the friendly profile of the collapsing house, the tiny meadow in which she had half-hoped to plant cabbages and beans in the spring.
    • Hidden behind trellises that enclose the outdoor growing area are lush green cabbages, green beans, exotic lettuces, peppers, tomatoes, spinach and a number of herbs, mostly in containers.
    • We plant a few cabbages and some early lettuces, and that pretty well fills up our garden plot.
    • They planted cabbages, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin and carrots that are currently being harvested.
    • On extensive grounds, the school has a well organised vegetable and herb garden, where the children grow cabbages, onions, potatoes, carrots, lettuce, and garlic.
    • In addition to sheep products (wool, hides, and meat), the islands grow vegetables such as potatoes, cabbages, and cauliflower.
    1. 1.1mass noun The leaves of cabbage, eaten as a vegetable.
      boiled cabbage
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Mushrooms, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce are good snack foods, and they add highly desirable phytonutrients and fiber to your diet.
      • While liver is the best source of vitamin A, excellent vegetable sources are carrots, cabbage and broccoli.
      • Studies show cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts have anti-cancer properties, especially when minimally cooked.
      • To include indirect antioxidants in your diet, eat daily servings of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and citrus fruits and drink green tea.
      • This comes with fillings like chopped peas, carrots, beans, cabbage, onion, chilly, and all the garam masala ingredients.
      • Vegetables like cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and turnips may reduce the risk of cancerous tumors.
      • All those beans, chickpeas, lentils and vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, eggplant and onions gave me such gas I was miserable.
      • Colcannon is a dish made of potato and either wild garlic, cabbage or curly kale.
      • The vegetables, a mixture of bok choy, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots, were fresh and delicious.
      • The veggie and non-veggie versions were identical, save for the beef in the meat couscous, and the vegetables included zucchini, carrot, cabbage and big beefy lima beans.
      • And the ones we custom-ordered, stuffed with onions, carrots and cabbage, are a good choice for vegetarians.
      • He could see whole boiled onions, carrots and cabbage, piled high.
      • Vegetables such as cabbage, turnips, carrots, and broccoli are also popular as accompaniments to the meat and potatoes.
      • In the meantime it may help to avoid gas producing foods, including beans, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, eggplant, radishes and onions.
      • Add the onion, paprika, bay leaves, cabbage, carrot and potatoes.
      • Vegetarian bangers with cabbage and onion clapshot will humble many a meat-eater, while the earthy sweet potato, coconut and lentil soup is as genial as an old friend's embrace.
      • The stove was always cooking up something hot to eat or drink, even if it was only fish, cabbage, carrots and potatoes, chapattis, nettle and onion soup and wild mint and blackberry leaf tea.
      • Next, fill your plate with cruciferous vegetables like Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and kale.
      • Vegetables to stock up on include broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, spinach, kale and cauliflower.
      • The pie was packed with lean meat and came with a separate and very hot dish of vegetables (carrots, white cabbage and broccoli).
  • 2informal A person who leads a dull or inactive life.

    I was becoming a 27 year-old cabbage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You just become a cabbage; bored to tears watching telly, with every day the same.
    • Staying at home doesn't mean you should become a cabbage.
    • She longs to resume a career, ‘I do not want to become a cabbage,’ she says.
    1. 2.1British offensive A person whose physical or mental activity is impaired or destroyed by injury or illness.
      I said I would not become a cabbage after my stroke

Derivatives

  • cabbagey

  • adjective
    • Down an alley-way comes the breeze, bringing gusts of foetid cabbagy air from the gratings over college kitchens along with its weight of moist droplets and spray.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The first time I had a Vietnamese fresh roll, it ruined the lugubrious, cabbagy egg roll for me forever.
      • The cabbage soup is good and hearty, filling, high in flavor, not overly cabbagey, and served with a warm pita.
      • They leave their swimming kit mouldering in a zip-up bag for several decades and wonder why they're greeted by a cabbagey stench when they finally decide to get fit again.
      • Tuck into this crisp, light, elegantly herby, 13 per cent alcohol summer food-suitable white with plenty of rich, cabbagey, mature Chardonnay fruit on the finish while you can.
      • The Rani platter brings two potato-pea samosas (wrapped pyramid dumplings), four milder pakoras (a little cabbagy, even), and one aloo pattice, an intriguing flat potato dumpling with minty coriander chutney stuffed inside.
      • We are more cabbagey as a nation because of a head of cabbage, and with its help we can aspire to higher and higher levels of vegetative wonder.
      • In fact, if you think about it, with bok choy, you're getting two for the price of one - the juicy mild-flavored stalks and the more cabbagey leaves.
      • The original wild plant, known as wild or sea cabbage, still grows in some coastal areas of Europe, is occasionally gathered and eaten, and has a cabbagy flavour.
      • I was pretty darn full after consuming that plate of cabbagy fishy goodness though, so I wasn't able to take on any of the outrageous looking desserts on the menu.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French (Picard) caboche 'head', variant of Old French caboce, of unknown origin.

Rhymes

Babbage
 
 

Definition of cabbage in US English:

cabbage

nounˈkæbɪdʒˈkabij
  • 1A cultivated plant eaten as a vegetable, having thick green or purple leaves surrounding a spherical heart or head of young leaves.

    Brassica oleracea, family Brassicaceae (the cabbage family). As well as the brassicas, the members of this family (known as crucifers) include the mustards and cresses together with many ornamentals (candytuft, alyssum, stocks, nasturtiums, wallflowers)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In what may have been the key sequence of the day, his approach landed a few yards from the pin, but bounced hard, and settled in the cabbage behind the green.
    • In the school's garden are giant tufts of spinach, green peppers and cabbages planted according to eco-friendly and sustainable permaculture principles.
    • They planted cabbages, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin and carrots that are currently being harvested.
    • Rosemary, thyme and dill are also good decorative herbs to plant with cabbages.
    • Should your fall planter need a bit of extra color or more filler plants, ornamental cabbages will be the perfect final touch.
    • In addition to sheep products (wool, hides, and meat), the islands grow vegetables such as potatoes, cabbages, and cauliflower.
    • At the top, she could not bear to look long at anything, the pond, the friendly profile of the collapsing house, the tiny meadow in which she had half-hoped to plant cabbages and beans in the spring.
    • So far they have planted lettuce, cabbage, mustard, beetroot and pawpaw trees.
    • To deter a whole range of insects that have an affinity for cabbages, practice good garden hygiene and rotate your crops.
    • Vendors said they are expecting a further price increase in the coming fortnight because flood waters may have unleashed more damage to fragile cash crops as pak choy, lettuce, tomatoes, cabbages and peppers.
    • Other fields and cottage gardens grow grapevines on overhead trellises, the soil beneath the arches being densely planted with cabbages and other vegetables.
    • But while they are growing he is cultivating the other cash crops including tomatoes, onions, cabbages, chilli peppers and coffee beans.
    • We plant a few cabbages and some early lettuces, and that pretty well fills up our garden plot.
    • Hidden behind trellises that enclose the outdoor growing area are lush green cabbages, green beans, exotic lettuces, peppers, tomatoes, spinach and a number of herbs, mostly in containers.
    • Particularly good trap crops include: green lettuce, cabbage, calendula, marigolds, comfrey leaves, zinnias and beans.
    • We grow all manner of vegetables from cabbages and carrots to marrows.
    • It becomes some sort of plant, like a cabbage, but bigger and with way more leaves.
    • In one of them, he urged his readers to plant the pine cabbage which stands unharmed through the icy Beijing winter, ready for use when the spring thaw arrives.
    • On extensive grounds, the school has a well organised vegetable and herb garden, where the children grow cabbages, onions, potatoes, carrots, lettuce, and garlic.
    • The highland Nainokanoka area is well suited for growing potatoes, cabbages, and other vegetables.
    1. 1.1 The leaves of a head of cabbage, eaten as a vegetable.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The stove was always cooking up something hot to eat or drink, even if it was only fish, cabbage, carrots and potatoes, chapattis, nettle and onion soup and wild mint and blackberry leaf tea.
      • Colcannon is a dish made of potato and either wild garlic, cabbage or curly kale.
      • The vegetables, a mixture of bok choy, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots, were fresh and delicious.
      • Vegetables like cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and turnips may reduce the risk of cancerous tumors.
      • And the ones we custom-ordered, stuffed with onions, carrots and cabbage, are a good choice for vegetarians.
      • In the meantime it may help to avoid gas producing foods, including beans, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, eggplant, radishes and onions.
      • All those beans, chickpeas, lentils and vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, eggplant and onions gave me such gas I was miserable.
      • Vegetables such as cabbage, turnips, carrots, and broccoli are also popular as accompaniments to the meat and potatoes.
      • The veggie and non-veggie versions were identical, save for the beef in the meat couscous, and the vegetables included zucchini, carrot, cabbage and big beefy lima beans.
      • Vegetarian bangers with cabbage and onion clapshot will humble many a meat-eater, while the earthy sweet potato, coconut and lentil soup is as genial as an old friend's embrace.
      • Next, fill your plate with cruciferous vegetables like Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and kale.
      • He could see whole boiled onions, carrots and cabbage, piled high.
      • Vegetables to stock up on include broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, spinach, kale and cauliflower.
      • The pie was packed with lean meat and came with a separate and very hot dish of vegetables (carrots, white cabbage and broccoli).
      • This comes with fillings like chopped peas, carrots, beans, cabbage, onion, chilly, and all the garam masala ingredients.
      • Mushrooms, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce are good snack foods, and they add highly desirable phytonutrients and fiber to your diet.
      • Add the onion, paprika, bay leaves, cabbage, carrot and potatoes.
      • Studies show cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts have anti-cancer properties, especially when minimally cooked.
      • While liver is the best source of vitamin A, excellent vegetable sources are carrots, cabbage and broccoli.
      • To include indirect antioxidants in your diet, eat daily servings of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and citrus fruits and drink green tea.
    2. 1.2informal Paper money.
      I'd have cabbage galore in the bank if I were more frugal

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French ( Picard) caboche ‘head’, variant of Old French caboce, of unknown origin.

 
 
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