Cabbage vs Spinach - What's the difference?
cabbage | spinach |
An edible plant ( ) having a head of green leaves.
(uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
(countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
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(uncountable, slang) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
The cabbage palmetto.
To form a head like that of the cabbage.
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
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, title= A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea , or its leaves.
Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is.
# Chinese spinach, )
# Malabar spinach (
# New Zealand spinach ()
# water spinach ()
# (label) (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)
# (Beta vulgaris : chard)
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# Lincolnshire spinach (: Good King Henry)
# mountain spinach Atriplex spp.
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As nouns the difference between cabbage and spinach
is that cabbage is an edible plant ( ) having a head of green leaves while spinach is a particular edible plant, spinacia oleracea , or its leaves.As a verb cabbage
is to form a head like that of the cabbage.cabbage
English
(wikipedia cabbage)Noun
- Cabbage is good for you.
- After the car crash, he became a cabbage .
Synonyms
* (plant) cabbage plant, cole * (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable) cole, greens * (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage) vegetableVerb
(cabbag)- Your tailorcabbages whole yards of cloth.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}