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cabbage-heads

cabbage-heads is the plural of cabbage-head.

Meaning of cabbage-head

Noun

cabbage-head (plural cabbage-heads)

  1. Head of cabbage
    • In autumn, on this single leg, Shaped like an apple, or an egg, A bulky cabbage-head is seen; For mortals meant, to eat — I ween.1820, The Port Folio, page 95
  2. Style of smokestack
    • Take a ride on the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway, whose rolling stock includes a magnificent “cabbage-head” woodburning locomotive;2014, The Rough Guide to the USA
  3. Foolish person
    • Them Frenchies worn't having no cabbage-head interfering in their affairs.2012, Laurie Graham, A Humble Companion
  4. Type of jellyfish
    • On December 2, a small stone crab on the south jetty was seen eating a cabbage-head jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris Agassiz, which had been stranded on the rocks by the tide.1965, Gulf Research Reports, page 296
  5. Mineral formation
    • Authigenic chlorite occurs as rosette or cabbage-head aggregates associated with illite and quartz in subsurface samples deeper than 1440 m.2009, R. Worden, Sadoon Morad, Quartz Cementation in Sandstones, page 244

Questions about cabbage-heads

What is cabbage-heads the plural of?
Cabbage-heads is the plural of cabbage-head.

Words near cabbage-heads in the dictionary

  1. cabbage whites
  2. cabbage worm
  3. cabbage worms
  4. cabbage-bark
  5. cabbage-head
  6. cabbage-heads
  7. cabbage-palm
  8. cabbage-palms
  9. cabbageball
  10. cabbaged
  11. cabbagehead

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