cultivated cabbage

2.7

A garden plant like cabbage, broccoli or cauliflower that people grow to eat

noun
/ˈkʌltɪˌveɪtɪd ˈkæbɪdʒ/

Specialized

: col cultivada

The market offered several types of cultivated cabbage, including broccoli and cauliflower.

Examples

Farmers rotate cultivated cabbage with other crops to maintain healthy soil.
Early spring is the ideal time to plant cultivated cabbage in your garden.
I love eating cultivated cabbage in salads.
Many farmers grow cultivated cabbages for local markets.
Many farmers grow cultivated cabbage for local markets during the harvest season.
Early spring is the ideal time to plant cultivated cabbage in your garden to ensure a healthy crop.
The market offered several types of cultivated cabbage, such as broccoli and cauliflower, appealing to health-conscious shoppers.

Surface Forms

cultivated cabbage singular

cultivated cabbages plural

Morphology

cultivated + cabbage

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'cultivated' (intentionally grown or tended) + 'cabbage' (a leafy edible vegetable), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to cabbage grown for agriculture. This adjective+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, making the phrase immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Cultivated cabbage names vegetables that people grow from the wild cabbage plant, such as broccoli and cauliflower. Here cultivated means 'grown by people' and cabbage refers to the wild plant, so the phrase means 'types of cabbage grown for food'.