cabbagehead

English

noun
Definitions
  • A head of cabbage.
  • A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.
  • A common type of jellyfish,
  • (geology) A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.
  • The larval form (caterpillar) of , which is a pest that eats cabbages.

Etymology

Compound from English cabbage + English head (-hood, noun, hood, foremost, or leading part, topmost, suffix indicating a fan enthusiast).

Origin

English

head

Gloss

-hood, noun, hood, foremost, or leading part, topmost, suffix indicating a fan enthusiast

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