colewort
colewort noun: a plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head and used for food, such as kale.
Noun
colewort (usually uncountable, plural coleworts)
- A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head and used for food, such as kale.
- Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline , Cold lettuce , and refreshing rosmarine1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
- [W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like...1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
- Synonyms:
- cole
Synonyms of colewort
Forms of colewort
| plural | coleworts |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | colwort |
Origin of colewort
Inherited from Middle English coolwort, coulwort, cole-wort, caule worte, equivalent to cole + wort.
Words formed from colewort
Questions about colewort
- What does colewort mean?
- Colewort means a plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head and used for food, such as kale.
- What part of speech is colewort?
- Colewort is a noun.
- What is the plural of colewort?
- The plural of colewort is coleworts.
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