cabbage-head

plural cabbage-heads

1. Alternative form of cabbagehead.
   1. Head of cabbage

      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.

      1820, The Port Folio, page 95

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      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.

      2018, PROCEEDINGS OF THE Academy of Natural Sciences, page 285

   2. Style of smokestack

      Away down the line he could see a locomotive approaching, a plume of smoke blowing back from its cabbage-head smokestack.

      2017, Emmett Stone, Splintered Canyon

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      Take a ride on the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway, whose rolling stock includes a magnificent “cabbage-head” woodburning locomotive;

      2014, The Rough Guide to the USA

   3. Foolish person

      Them Frenchies worn't having no cabbage-head interfering in their affairs.

      2012, Laurie Graham, A Humble Companion

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      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.

      2012, Amanda McCabe, The Star of India

   4. Type of jellyfish

      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.

      1965, Gulf Research Reports, page 296

   5. Mineral formation

      Authigenic chlorite occurs as rosette or cabbage-head aggregates associated with illite and quartz in subsurface samples deeper than 1440 m.

      2009, R. Worden, Sadoon Morad, Quartz Cementation in Sandstones, page 244