Meaning of cabbage-head | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Head of cabbage
2. Style of smokestack
3. Foolish person
4. Type of jellyfish
5. Mineral formation

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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