cabbage

• In the centre of this mass grows the far-famed cabbage, which is a tender white shoot, protected by numerous fibrous folds. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• It is supposed to be a hybrid between the cabbage and the turnip and is often called the cabbage-turnip, having the root of the former, with a turnip-like or bulbous stem. —  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
• "By modern travellers it is called the cabbage of the palm; it 'is composed' (says Sir Joseph Banks) 'of the rudiments of the future leaves of the palm-tree, enveloped in the bases or footstalks of the actual leaves; which enclose them as a tight box or trunk would do.' —  The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis
• Besides, I believe that it is practised in all the provinces, and does not belong peculiarly to our own Just as the ceremony of the wedding favors is a symbol that the heart and home of the bride are won, that of the cabbage is a symbol of the fruit-fulness of marriage. —  La mare au diable. English
• Then they select the choicest cabbage, and this is not done very quickly, for the old people keep consulting and disputing interminably, each one pleading for the cabbage he thinks most suitable. —  La mare au diable. English

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