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单词 cabbage-head
释义

cabbage-head

English

Noun

cabbage-head (plural cabbage-heads)

  1. Alternative form of cabbagehead
    1. Head of cabbage
      • 1820, The Port Folio, page 95:
        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.
      • 2018, PROCEEDINGS OF THE Academy of Natural Sciences, page 285:
        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.
    2. Style of smokestack
      • 2014, The Rough Guide to the USA:
        Take a ride on the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway, whose rolling stock includes a magnificent “cabbage-head” woodburning locomotive;
      • 2017, Emmett Stone, Splintered Canyon:
        Away down the line he could see a locomotive approaching, a plume of smoke blowing back from its cabbage-head smokestack.
    3. Foolish person
      • 2012, Laurie Graham, A Humble Companion:
        Them Frenchies worn't having no cabbage-head interfering in their affairs.
      • 2012, Amanda McCabe, The Star of India:
        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.
    4. Type of jellyfish
      • 1965, Gulf Research Reports, page 296:
        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.
    5. Mineral formation
      • 2009, R. Worden, ‎Sadoon Morad, Quartz Cementation in Sandstones, page 244:
        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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