cabbage-head
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2ADJ.
bulky, locomotive, magnificent, regular
VERB + CABBAGE-HEAD
examine, includes
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noun
Alternative form of cabbagehead.
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.
In this case the longitudinal growth was arrested, and if we examine the regular cabbage-head, we find ten, fifteen, or often more leaves forming a single cycle round the stem, as in all cases of arrestation of growth — forming of a cone in the pine, for instance— the number of leaves in a cycle were increased.
Alternative form of cabbagehead.
Take a ride on the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway, whose rolling stock includes a magnificent “cabbage-head” woodburning locomotive;
Away down the line he could see a locomotive approaching, a plume of smoke blowing back from its cabbage-head smokestack.
Alternative form of cabbagehead.
Them Frenchies worn't having no cabbage-head interfering in their affairs.
What a cabbage-head she was. Anyone would have thought she was a sixteen-year-old with her first suitor, not sophisticated, in-her-third-Season Lady Emily Kenton.
Alternative form of cabbagehead.
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.
Alternative form of cabbagehead.
Authigenic chlorite occurs as rosette or cabbage-head aggregates associated with illite and quartz in subsurface samples deeper than 1440 m.
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3In 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.
WiktionaryIn this case the longitudinal growth was arrested, and if we examine the regular cabbage-head, we find ten, fifteen, or often more leaves forming a single cycle round the stem, as in all cases of arre
WiktionaryTake a ride on the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway, whose rolling stock includes a magnificent “cabbage-head” woodburning locomotive;
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