sea-cabbagen.
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a. = sea-kale n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > sea-kale
sea-cole1548
sea-kale1699
sea-colewort1700
sea-cabbage1731
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Crambe. Sea-Cabbage.
1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 140 Brassica oleracea (Sea Cabbage).
b. dialect. (See quot. 1904.)
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1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. Sea Cabbage, the great mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > tangle
hangera1483
tanglec1540
tang1547
sea-ragged-staff1633
tangle-wrack1721
sea-cabbage1764
prickly tang1795
yellow tang1809
tangle-weed1825
fucoid1848
saw-wrack1868
tangle-work1890
1764 J. Grieve tr. S. P. Krasheninnikov Hist. Kamtschatka 131 They have three different ways of catching them: 1st. By nets placed among the sea cabbage [note Fucus marinus], whither the beavers retire in the night time.
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