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cabbage Definition


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cabbage
noun
    1. Any of several varieties of a leafy biennial plant, grown for its compact head of green, white or red edible leaves.
    2. The leaves of this plant, which can be cooked, eaten raw in salads or pickled.
    3. derog
      A dull inactive person.
    4. offensive
      A person so severely brain-damaged or mentally subnormal as to be completely dependent on other people for survival.
Etymology: 14c: from French caboche head.



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