Meaning

A head of cabbage..

Definitions by Sense

1. A head of cabbage.
2. A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.
3. A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris
4. (geology) A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.
5. The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages.
6. A stupid person; an idiot.

Example Sentences

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.

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, ...

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).

Word Forms

• cabbageheads
• cabbage-head
• cabbage head

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Use cabbagehead when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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