cabbagehead

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A head of cabbage. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. A stupid person; an idiot.
    — So Marston cooperates, enters the stinking lavatory stall to change clothes, opens the diplomatic bags himself while the slow-witted cabbagehead remains outside.
  3. A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack. countable,uncountable
    — Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era.
  4. A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris countable,uncountable
    — The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe.
  5. A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral. countable,uncountable
    — The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead.
  6. The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages. countable,uncountable
    — However, the cabbagehead caterpillar (Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller) which is the secondary pest of cabbage, may become a serious problem, particularly during the dry season.

词形变化

cabbageheads plural cabbage-head alternative cabbage head alternative cabbageheads plural cabbage-head alternative cabbage head alternative

词汇关系

相关词
cabbage moth cabbage white cabbage worm

词源

词源 1
From cabbage + head.
词源 2
From cabbage + -head.
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