Word Finder - cabbages

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An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.

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The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

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Cabbage is good for you.

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A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.

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After the car crash, he became a cabbage.

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Used as a term of endearment.

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Money.

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Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.

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The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.

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The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.

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To form a head like that of the cabbage.

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to make lettuce cabbage

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To do nothing; to idle; veg out.

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To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

Full crops of cabbages should be planted out; also cauliflowers under handglasses.

For instance, the difference between the long-stalked and finely-cut leaves of Anemone attacked with rust and the normal leaves with broad segments, or between the urceolate leaves occasionally found on cabbages and the ordinary formin these cases undoubtedly pathological and teratological respectivelyis nothing like so great as between the upper and lower normalleaves of many Umhelliferae or the submerged and floating leaves of an aquatic Ranunculus or Cabomba.

They grow cauliflowers, our red and white cabbages and also potatoes.

Liming tends to produce earlier crops and destroys the fungus which causes finger-and-toe or club-root among turnips and cabbages.

In its crop of greenpeas Maryland was exceeded (1899) by New York only; in sweet Indian corn it ranked fifth; in kale, second; in spinach, third; in cabbages, ninth.

Plant cauliflower, cabbages, sea-kale, lettuce; and finish the planting of the main crops of potatoes; divide and replant globe-artichokes.

Propagate all sorts of pot-herbs, and attend to the hoeing and thinning of spinach, onions, turnips, carrots, beet, &c. Earth up cabbages, cauliflower, peas, beans and early potatoes.

Cabbages that have headed may usually be preserved against injury by frost until the middle of next month, by simply pulling them up and packing them closely in a dry spot in the open field with the heads down and roots up. On approach of cold weather in December they should be covered up with leaves as high as the tops of the roots, or, if the soil is light, it may be thrown over them, if leaves are not convenient.

Cabbages will keep this way until March if the covering has not been put on too early.

It is in this way that cabbages and savoys are rendered more delicate and nutritious.

Of these, potatoes, cabbages, and turnips are of comparatively recent introduction.

There are early recipes for cabbage soup too, with Dorset the first county in England to cultivate cabbages.

People put ornamental cabbages in pots so I dont see why not.

In Irish folklore, cabbages are supposed to reveal a lot about a future spouses.

In the field, illuminated by the moonlight are rows upon rows of skulls, planted like cabbages.

Our first cabbages are ready to plant and the soil is dry enough to get a perfect seedbed.

The nutrients in the banana skin are supposed to make the cabbages grow quickly.

In the introductory paper in Maxwell's collection we are told that " The practice of draining, enclosing, summer fallowing, sowing flax, hemp, rape, turnip and grass seeds, planting cabbages after, and potatoes with, the plough, in fields of great extent, is introduced; and that, according to the general opinion, more corn grows now yearly where it was never known to grow before, these twenty years last past, than perhaps a sixth of all that the kingdom was in use to produce at any time before."

The vegetable productions are less numerous, but they include sweet potatoes, cabbages, cauliflower, lettuce, beans, peas, onions, garlic, tomatoes, okra, radishes, cucumbers, couve, chuchu (Sechium edule), and aipim (Manihot aipi).

Its crop of potatoes in 1909 was 52,560,000 bushels and that of Maine, the next largest, 29,250,000 bushels; and the state is a large producer of onions, turnips, cabbages, cauliflower, sweet Indian corn, cucumbers, rhubarb, parsnips, carrots, green peas and green beans.

Hard by is the kitchen garden (o), the beds bearing the names of the vegetables growing in them, onions, garlic, celery, lettuces, poppy, carrots, cabbages, &c., eighteen in all.

The state ranks high in the production of potatoes, cabbages, lettuce and turnips, and it produces large crops of sweet Indian corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, musk-melons, asparagus and celery.

Sweet Indian corn, cabbages, turnips, cucumbers and tomatoes are grown in large quantities.

Saginaw is situated in a good farming region with a fertile soil, especially adapted to the culture of sugar beets; other important crops are beans, cabbages, tomatoes, cucumbers, hay, apples and grains.

Pears, plums; apricots, cherries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, cabbages, onions, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cucumbers are grown in considerable quantities.

One good example of flowers helping plants is nasturtium and cabbages.

One examples are nasturtiums grown near vegetables in the Brassica family, such as cabbages.

For leafy crops, consider Brussels sprouts, most cabbages, fava beans and cauliflower.

Carrots, cabbages, turnips and rape, not yet cultivated in the fields, are mentioned among the herbs and roots for the kitchen.

Albion is the centre of the Medina sandstone industry, and lies in the midst of a good farming region, of which it is the principal shipping point, especially for apples, cabbages and beans.

It suits many of the esculent crops, as onions, beans, cabbages, carrots, beet-root, asparagus, &c.; the quantity applied varies from 5 to to bushels per acre.

Sow salading every ten days; also carrots, onions and radishes for drawing young; and chicory for salads; sow endive for a full crop. In the first week sow Early Munich and Golden Ball turnips for succession, and in the third week for a full autumn crop. Sow scarlet and white runner beans for a late crop, and cabbages for coleworts.

Plant endive and lettuce at the foot of a south wall to stand the winter; plant out cabbages from the chief autumn sowing.

Plant cabbages in beds or close rows till wanted in spring; and cauliflowers in the last week, to receive the protection of frames, or a sheltered situation.

They're cold and flabby, like cabbages, in spite of their prettiness.