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Meaning of "wild cabbage" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WILD CABBAGE

wild cabbage


WHAT DOES WILD CABBAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Brassica oleracea

Brassica oleracea is the species of plant that includes many common foods as cultivars, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy, kohlrabi and Chinese kale. In its uncultivated form it is known as wild cabbage. It is native to coastal southern and western Europe. Its tolerance of salt and lime and its intolerance of competition from other plants typically restrict its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs, like the chalk cliffs on both sides of the English Channel. Wild B. oleracea is a tall biennial plant, forming a stout rosette of large leaves in the first year, the leaves being fleshier and thicker than those of other species of Brassica, adaptations to store water and nutrients in its difficult growing environment. In its second year, the stored nutrients are used to produce a flower spike 1 to 2 metres tall bearing numerous yellow flowers.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WILD CABBAGE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WILD CABBAGE

ambage · Babbage · Burbage · cabbage · carbage · Chinese cabbage · cribbage · cubage · drumhead cabbage · garbage · herbage · pak-choi cabbage · pe-tsai cabbage · red cabbage · skunk cabbage · tubage · turnip cabbage

Synonyms and antonyms of wild cabbage in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wild cabbage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WILD CABBAGE

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The translations of wild cabbage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wild cabbage» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

甘蓝
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

col silvestre
570 millions of speakers
en

English

wild cabbage
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

जंगली गोभी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملفوف البرية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

дикий капусты
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

couve selvagem
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বন্য বাঁধাকপি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

chou sauvage
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kubis liar
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Wildkraut
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

野生のキャベツ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

야생 양배추
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Gobis liar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bắp cải hoang dã
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

காட்டு முட்டைக்கோஸ்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वन्य कोबी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Vahşi lahana
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

cavoli selvatici
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

dzikiej kapusty
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

дикий капусти
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

varză sălbatic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άγρια ​​λάχανα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wilde kool
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vild kål
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vill kål
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILD CABBAGE»

Discover the use of wild cabbage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wild cabbage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wild Vegan Cookbook: A Forager's Culinary Guide (in the ...
You can find wild cabbage everywhere throughout the United States. Cabbage likes cold weather and grows in late fall, early spring, and during warm spells in the winter You can collect it during any of these seasons. Wild cabbage grows to  ...
Steve Brill, 2010
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VK Science - Biology
The wild cabbage plant is a good example to mention. Farmers have been cultivating wild cabbage as a food plant for over two thousand years. By carefully examining variations in these cabbage plants, crossing them and artificially selecting ...
BS Tomar
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Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and ...
PLANT ORIGIN N. Vavilov wrote that the cabbage originated in the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, although K. F. Thompson maintains that wild cabbage is native to the coasts of northwestern Europe as well as the Mediterranean. It is doubtful ...
Clifford A. Wright, 2001
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Introductory Botany: Plants, People, and the Environment, ...
All seven were produced by selective breeding of the colewort, or wild cabbage, a leafy plant native to Europe and Asia. In selective breeding, plants with desirable characteristics are selected for propagation. Beginning more than 4000 years ...
Linda Berg, 2007
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Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book
Wild cabbage is native to the sea coasts of northern France and Great Britain, and they ate that before the Romans arrived. Wild cabbage is very nasty indeed; the rest of the diet must have been stodgy and dull for the Celts to have tolerated it.
Jane Grigson, 2007
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The Philosophical Magazine and Journal: Comprehending the ...
The leaves of the Wild Cabbage are in every respect like those of the Garden Cabbage, fleshy, glabrous, and of a blueish green ; the inferior ones are petiolated, and more deeply divided than in the cultivated varieties, from which ...
‎1823
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Genes in the Environment: 15th Special Symposium of the ...
Variation in vector abundance and/or ability to transmit the virus might be a better predictor of spatial and temporal variation in the incidence of TuMV infections in wild cabbage. Vector behaviour could be controlled by host plant genotype, ...
Rosie S. Hails, John E. Beringer, H. Charles J. Godfray, 2001
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Philosophical Magazine
_ The leaves of the Wild Cabbage are in every respect like those of the Garden Cabbage, fleshy, glabrous, and of a blueish green; the inferior ones are petiolated, and more deeply di'_vided than in the cultivated varieties, from which  ...
‎1823
9
Why Evolution is True
The wild cabbage has given rise to five different vegetables: broccoli, domestic cabbage, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower, each selected to modify a different part of the plant (broccoli, for example, is simply a tight, enlarged cluster of ...
Jerry A. Coyne, 2009
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THE GARDENER'S MAGAZINE
The Sea or Wild Cabbage at Dover. — Sir, Herewith I send you some seed of the sea or wild cabbage (ifrassica oleracea Eng. Bot. pi. 637.), no doubt the original parent of many of our garden vegetables. The plant, if not rare, is yet, I believe, ...
J.C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &C, 1832

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILD CABBAGE»

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How to grow... cabbages
If you can handle the inevitable deluge of cabbages, heading cabbages can be worthwhile, especially if you choose interesting varieties. Wild cabbage is so ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 15»
2
Make friends with cabbage
As Harold McGee writes in “On Food And Cooking,” wild cabbage originated on the shores of the Mediterranean, and the region's salty, sunny terroir demanded ... «Commons, Feb 15»
3
Kale Is Genetically Modified, And So Are These Other Surprising …
And how did we turn wild cabbage into kale? With mutation and selective breeding, of course. Smithsonian notes that after breeding a mutated variety of the ... «Bustle, Sep 14»
4
Sorry Hipsters, That Organic Kale Is a Genetically Modified Food
All these veggies descend from Brassica oleracea, a wild cabbage. Some of these cabbages had a mutation for longer, curlier leaves, and plants with the ... «Smithsonian, Sep 14»
5
Kale, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, and Cabbage are All the Same …
In its uncultivated form, brassica oleracea is known as wild cabbage. So try updating a raw kale salad with some broccoli or brussels sprouts thrown in. If all the ... «FOODBEAST, Sep 13»
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How many more variations of cabbage can we breed?
The variety that remains closest to the ancestral wild cabbage, and also tastes the worst in the opinion of many, is kale or collards. Kale doesn't do much except ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
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Cabbage Conundrum: What Do You Do with a 125 lb Cabbage?
Cabbage–also known as wild cabbage or sea cabbage, was cultivated by the Ancient Romans and Greeks because of supposed medicinal properties. «National Geographic, Sep 11»
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Cabbage whites under threat
Larval food plants: Brassicas – that is, all members of the cabbage family, such as cabbages, cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts, etc, as well as wild cabbage in ... «Independent, Apr 09»
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