cabbagehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabbageheads
form: cabbage-head
form: cabbage head
Etymology: From cabbage + head.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1931, Katharine Kinard Doughtie, Groceries & Notions:
text: He had pulled them up by the roots and the cabbageheads were still on their stalks, which were like handles.
ref: 1944, Elmer Reid Smith, Marion L. Edman, Georgia E. Miller, Invitation to Reading - Book 3, page 11:
text: 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.
ref: 1953, Station Bulletin - Volumes 34-54:
glosses: A head of cabbage.
examples: text: Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era.
ref: 1947, Trains - Volume 7, page 54:
text: ...and at 6:30 the train steams out over Sawgrass marsh with Emanuel Beasley, its engineer, sweating over the firebox of a cabbagehead locomotive.
ref: 1954, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 226, Issue 6, page 102:
text: His first experience in engine service was on the old "cabbagehead" wood-burning engines, ...
ref: 1955, Locomotive Engineers Journal - Volume 89, page 624:
glosses: A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.
examples: text: The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe.
ref: 1984, Lawrence S. Earley, Wildlife in North Carolina, page 22:
text: The most conspicuous medusa in our coastal waters is the cabbagehead, Stomolophus meleagris (Figure 11.4).
ref: 1989, Nick Fotheringham, Susan B. Rothschild, Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life, page 95:
text: The most common jellyfish in Georgia waters is the cabbagehead.
ref: 2003, David Bryant, George Davidson, Georgia's Amazing Coast:
glosses: A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris
examples: text: The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead.
ref: 1980, Developments in Sedimentology - Volume 29, page 313:
text: 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).
ref: 1982, Shaly Sand, page I-155:
text: Actinium-228 was the only other naturally occurring radionuclide detected in cabbagehead samples.
ref: 1985, Ruth Patrick, John M. Palms, Radiological and Ecological Studies in the Vicinity of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station., page 183:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.
examples: text: However, the cabbagehead caterpillar (Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller) which is the secondary pest of cabbage, may become a serious problem, particularly during the dry season.
ref: 1992, N. S. Talekar, Diamondback moth and other crucifer pests, page 81:
text: 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).
ref: 1996, J. K. Waage, Biological Control Introductions, page 19:
text: 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.
ref: 1999, Thai Journal of Agricultural Science, page 520:
glosses: The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages.
Related terms: cabbage moth
cabbage white
cabbage worm