Colewort

  • 41cole — noun /kəʊl/ a) Cabbage. b) Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed). See Also: colewort …

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  • 42Liste des plantes à feuilles comestibles — Cette liste recense les plantes dont les feuilles sont, ou ont été, consommées par l homme, par exemple comme légume feuille ou herbes aromatiques. L inscription sur cette liste n implique pas nécessairement la sécurité. Bien que la plupart de… …

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  • 43collard greens — col|lard greens [ˌkɔləd ˈgri:nz US ˈka:lərd ˌgri:nz] n [plural] AmE [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: colewort type of cabbage (14 21 centuries), from cole plant of the cabbage family (11 21 centuries) (from Old English cal, from Latin caulis cabbage ) + …

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  • 44collard — 1755, Amer.Eng., corruption of colewort (M.E.) cabbage, later especially kale, greens; first element related to the cole in COLESLAW (Cf. coleslaw); for second element, see WORT (Cf. wort) …

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  • 45rocket — {{11}}rocket (n.1) garden plant of the cabbage family, 1520s, from M.Fr. roquette, from It. rochetta, dim. of ruca a kind of cabbage, from L. eruca colewort, perhaps lit. hairy caterpillar (the plant has downy stems) and related to ericus… …

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  • 46collard — [ kɒlα:d] noun dialect or N. Amer. a cabbage of a variety that does not develop a heart. Origin C18: reduced form of archaic colewort, in the same sense, from cole + wort …

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  • 47kale — n. Colewort …

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  • 48sea-cabbage — n. Sea kale, sea colewort (Crambe maritima) …

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  • 49collard — col•lard [[t]ˈkɒl ərd[/t]] n. 1) pln a variety of kale, Brassica oleracea acephala, grown in the southern U.S., having a rosette of green leaves 2) pln collards. Also called col′lard greens . the leaves of this plant, eaten cooked as a vegetable… …

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  • 50Coryate, or Coryatt, Thomas — (1577 1617)    Poet, b. at Odcombe, Somerset, and ed. at Westminster and Oxf., entered the household of Prince Henry. In 1608 he made a walking tour in France, Italy, and Germany, walking nearly 2000 miles in one pair of shoes, which were, until… …

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