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Krauts

Krauts

9.9
Leafy vegetables like cabbages that people grow and eat
  • noun
  • /kraʊts/
  • US
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  • The farmer harvested several types of krauts from his garden, including savoy and Napa cabbage.

Examples

  • It's called Fielder Kraut and what's unique about it is that instead of the roundhead, it has a pointed head.

  • The recipe calls for various krauts to make a hearty cabbage soup.

  • She prepared a delicious salad using fresh krauts picked from the local farmer's market.

Synonyms

cruciferous vegetable
vsKrauts
  • Specialized
1 3.6

A vegetable from the mustard family like cabbage or broccoli that people eat

refers mainly to leafy cabbages in some dialects rather than all mustard plants

Surface Forms

Krauts plural

Morphology

Krauts = kraut (transparent) = kraut + s

Regular plural formation from the noun 'kraut' meaning cabbage or leafy vegetable; the plural meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Krauts comes from the German Kraut, meaning 'cabbage' or 'herb', and you can see the same root in the English food name sauerkraut. So in some regions Krauts simply means cabbages or leafy vegetables, like the ones a farmer sells at market.