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cabbageheads

cabbageheads is the plural of cabbagehead.

Meaning of cabbagehead

Noun (1)

cabbagehead (countable and uncountable, plural cabbageheads)

  1. A head of cabbage.
    • 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.1931, Katharine Kinard Doughtie, Groceries & Notions
  2. A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.
    • Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era.1947, Trains - Volume 7, page 54
  3. A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris
    • The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe.1984, Lawrence S. Earley, Wildlife in North Carolina, page 22
  4. A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.
    • The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead.1980, Developments in Sedimentology - Volume 29, page 313
  5. The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages.
    • However, the cabbagehead caterpillar (Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller) which is the secondary pest of cabbage, may become a serious problem, particularly during the dry season.1992, N. S. Talekar, Diamondback moth and other crucifer pests, page 81

Noun (2)

cabbagehead (plural cabbageheads)

  1. 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.1983, Robert L. Duncan, The Queen's Messenger, page 282

Questions about cabbageheads

What is cabbageheads the plural of?
Cabbageheads is the plural of cabbagehead.

Words near cabbageheads in the dictionary

  1. cabbage-palm
  2. cabbage-palms
  3. cabbageball
  4. cabbaged
  5. cabbagehead
  6. cabbageheads
  7. cabbageless
  8. cabbagelike
  9. cabbages
  10. Cabbagetown
  11. cabbagewood

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