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A head of cabbage.
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The artichoke is elegant, but hardly sympathetic. Asparagus is nice enough, but rather apathetic. A cabbagehead is admirable, but after all is said It' s nothing really very much except a cabbagehead.
He had pulled them up by the roots and the cabbageheads were still on their stalks, which were like handles.
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They are at first white, but later become yellowish; they are very small and difficult to detect, being usually deposited singly or in groups of two or three upon the outer surface of a spreading leaf, and not upon the cabbagehead.
A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.
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Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era.
...and at 6:30 the train steams out over Sawgrass marsh with Emanuel Beasley, its engineer, sweating over the firebox of a cabbagehead locomotive.
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His first experience in engine service was on the old "cabbagehead" wood-burning engines, ...
A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris
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The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe.
The most conspicuous medusa in our coastal waters is the cabbagehead, Stomolophus meleagris (Figure 11.4).
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The most common jellyfish in Georgia waters is the cabbagehead.
A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.
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The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead.
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The rarest growth habit of authigenic chlorite is the cabbagehead. At low magnifications they appear to be small, equidimensional grains usually attached to sand-sized grains (Fig. 15E).
Actinium-228 was the only other naturally occurring radionuclide detected in cabbagehead samples.
The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages.
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However, the cabbagehead caterpillar (Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller) which is the secondary pest of cabbage, may become a serious problem, particularly during the dry season.
According to our studies, B. thuringiensis is effective against DBM and cabbagehead caterpillar and does not have any detrimental effects on the parasitoid (Sastrosiswojo et al, 1977).
The maximum mortality of the cabbagehead caterpillar (C pavonana) and the cluster caterpillar (5. litura) approached 7096, while that of the diamondback moth (P. xylostella) was only 66.6796.
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A stupid person; an idiot.
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So Marston cooperates, enters the stinking lavatory stall to change clothes, opens the diplomatic bags himself while the slow-witted cabbagehead remains outside.
I can't stand to see them mistreated. I suppose it seems silly to you. You and your friends must all think me a cabbagehead.
A cabbagism is dialogue that is specifically added to a scene to explain a term or device to the cabbageheads in the audience.