headed
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- adjective
- /ˈhɛdɪd/
- Specialized
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- The chef preferred using headed greens for salads because they are fresher.
Examples
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The farmer planted a field of tightly packed, headed lettuce ready for harvest.
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The roses were cream-colored with an edging of yellow, heavy-headed, and densely textured.
Fiction book (1995) -
Its cool-headed, judicious style evinced none of the rancor or anti-hereditarian rhetoric typical of Burt's detractors.
Academic text (1991) -
Each headed cabbage formed a tight cluster of leaves, indicating it was ripe.
Synonyms
A thing that has a thick rounded top like a mop of hair or leaves that looks messy
Compounds
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A small songbird with a blue-gray head and olive-green back found in northeastern North America
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A calm and sensible way of thinking in difficult or stressful situations
- Specialized
A four-sided sail set along the boat with its top held by a sloping pole
A land frog that digs and lives underground at night with a hard head
- Literature
A monster with a head that looks like a pumpkin that appears in stories or at Halloween
A garden plant with a round bulb and purple flower head used for food and decoration
A harmless pale snake with smooth, rubbery skin that lives in grass and woods
- Specialized
A parasite that lives in animal intestines and can pull its spiny head back to hold on
- Australian
A tall wading bird with long thin legs, a white head, and black wings
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Headed comes from the simple word head, which means 'top' or main part, and the ending -ed meaning 'having'. So a 'headed' vegetable is one that has formed a tight 'head' or cluster of leaves.