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drumhead cabbage

drumhead cabbage noun: a variety of large winter cabbage with tightly compacted leaves and a flattened shape.

Noun

drumhead cabbage (plural drumhead cabbages)

  1. A variety of large winter cabbage with tightly compacted leaves and a flattened shape.
    • His cows were fed with green food, as being so much cheaper than hay, and for this purpose he planted cabbages and turnips. […] The common drumhead cabbage were first used; next followed the common turnip, then the Swedish and kohlrabi, and last the coleseed.1808, C. Cradock with W. Joy, The Antijacobin Review and Magazine; or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, volume XXXI, page 360
    • In these results the Sutton's Earliest Drumhead cabbage has given the highest average yield of green crop per acre when the seed was sown and treated in exactly the same way as that of rape.1911, Legislature of the Province of Ontario, Sessional Papers, volume 43, page 29

Forms of drumhead cabbage

pluraldrumhead cabbages

Questions about drumhead cabbage

What does drumhead cabbage mean?
Drumhead cabbage means a variety of large winter cabbage with tightly compacted leaves and a flattened shape.
What part of speech is drumhead cabbage?
Drumhead cabbage is a noun.
What is the plural of drumhead cabbage?
The plural of drumhead cabbage is drumhead cabbages.

Words near drumhead cabbage in the dictionary

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  2. Drumgelloch
  3. Drumgoole
  4. Drumgooles
  5. drumhead
  6. drumhead cabbage
  7. drumhead cabbages
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  9. drumhead clocks
  10. drumhead court-martial
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