Cabbagehead

Quick meaning: Cabbagehead is a noun meaning A head of cabbage.

Meaning

A head of cabbage.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

His first experience in engine service was on the old "cabbagehead" wood-burning engines, .

The most conspicuous medusa in our coastal waters is the cabbagehead, Stomolophus meleagris (Figure 11.4).

He had pulled them up by the roots and the cabbageheads were still on their stalks, which were like handles.

Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era.

Word Forms

• cabbageheads
• cabbage-head
• cabbage head

Related Words

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