head cabbage
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- noun
- /hɛd ˈkæbɪdʒ/
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- To make coleslaw, you will need one medium head cabbage, finely shredded.
- 1/2 head cabbage
- 1 head cabbage
- medium head cabbage
Examples
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Oh, and our cabbage, our head cabbage is doing really we're growing a nice head.
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The head cabbage.
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In the salad, I added a small amount of chopped head cabbage for extra crunch.
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For the stir-fry, use a whole head cabbage cut into strips and sautéed with vegetables.
Synonyms
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A round vegetable with thick leaves eaten raw or cooked
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A cabbage with dark red leaves often used in salads or cooking
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A round vegetable with wrinkled green leaves used in cooking
A leafy plant grown for its round edible head called cabbage
A vegetable plant that grows a large round head of green leaves
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'head' describes the rounded, compact part of the vegetable and combined with 'cabbage' yields the sense 'a cabbage with a head' (equivalent to 'head of cabbage'). This is a transparent noun–noun combination following common compounding/nominalisation patterns that B1 learners who know both words can readily infer.
Etymology
Head cabbage is named for the tight, round head of leaves that grows on a cabbage; cooks and farmers cut that head to use in meals. That's why the name means a cabbage with a firm, compact head used in cooking and salads.