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Cabbagehead
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- 1 A head of cabbage. countable, uncountable
"The artichoke is elegant, but hardly sympathetic. Asparagus is nice enough, but rather apathetic. A cabbagehead is admirable, but after all is said It' s nothing really very much except a cabbagehead."
- 2 A stupid person; an idiot.
"So Marston cooperates, enters the stinking lavatory stall to change clothes, opens the diplomatic bags himself while the slow-witted cabbagehead remains outside."
- 3 A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack. countable, uncountable
"Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era."
- 4 A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris countable, uncountable
"The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe."
- 5 A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral. countable, uncountable
"The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead."
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- 6 The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages. countable, uncountable
"However, the cabbagehead caterpillar (Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller) which is the secondary pest of cabbage, may become a serious problem, particularly during the dry season."
Etymology
From cabbage + head.
From cabbage + -head.
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