cabbagehead

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • He had pulled them up by the roots and the cabbageheads were still on their stalks, which were like handles.
   • They are at first white, but later become yellowish; they are very small and difficult to detect, being usually deposited singly or in groups of two or three upon the outer surface of a spreading leaf, and not upon the cabbagehead.
2. 2

   A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a…

   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.
   • ...and at 6:30 the train steams out over Sawgrass marsh with Emanuel Beasley, its engineer, sweating over the firebox of a cabbagehead locomotive.
   • His first experience in engine service was on the old "cabbagehead" wood-burning engines, ...
3. 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.
   • The most conspicuous medusa in our coastal waters is the cabbagehead, Stomolophus meleagris (Figure 11.4).
   • The most common jellyfish in Georgia waters is the cabbagehead.
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   1. 4

      A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.

      • The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead.
      • The rarest growth habit of authigenic chlorite is the cabbagehead. At low magnifications they appear to be small, equidimensional grains usually attached to sand-sized grains (Fig. 15E).
      • Actinium-228 was the only other naturally occurring radionuclide detected in cabbagehead samples.
   2. 5

      The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats…

      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.
      • According to our studies, B. thuringiensis is effective against DBM and cabbagehead caterpillar and does not have any detrimental effects on the parasitoid (Sastrosiswojo et al, 1977).
      • The maximum mortality of the cabbagehead caterpillar (C pavonana) and the cluster caterpillar (5. litura) approached 7096, while that of the diamondback moth (P. xylostella) was only 66.6796.
   3. 6

      A stupid person

      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.
      • I can't stand to see them mistreated. I suppose it seems silly to you. You and your friends must all think me a cabbagehead.
      • A cabbagism is dialogue that is specifically added to a scene to explain a term or device to the cabbageheads in the audience.

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