cabbage-head
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "In autumn, on this single leg, Shaped like an apple, or an egg, A bulky cabbage-head is seen; For mortals meant, to eat — I ween."
- "In this case the longitudinal growth was arrested, and if we examine the regular cabbage-head, we find ten, fifteen, or often more leaves forming a single cycle round the stem, as in all cases of arrestation of growth — forming of a cone in the pine, for instance— the number of leaves in a cycle were increased."
- "Take a ride on the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway, whose rolling stock includes a magnificent “cabbage-head” woodburning locomotive;"
- "Away down the line he could see a locomotive approaching, a plume of smoke blowing back from its cabbage-head smokestack."
- "Them Frenchies worn't having no cabbage-head interfering in their affairs."
- "What a cabbage-head she was. Anyone would have thought she was a sixteen-year-old with her first suitor, not sophisticated, in-her-third-Season Lady Emily Kenton."