English Dictionary

cabbagehead

noun

A head of cabbage. / A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack. / A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris

She picked up a cabbagehead from the grocery store.

意味（1）

A head of cabbage.

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.

意味（2）

A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.

Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era.

意味（3）

A common type of jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris

The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe.

意味（4）

(geology) A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.

The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead.

意味（5）

The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages.

However, the cabbagehead caterpillar (Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller) which is the secondary pest of cabbage, may become a serious problem, particularly during the dry season.