Cabbagehead

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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  1. 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

Etymology 1

From cabbage + head.

Etymology 2

From cabbage + -head.

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