cabbagehead

noun6

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. — 1931
2. •
   A stupid person; an idiot.

   • So Marston cooperates, enters the stinking lavatory stall to change clothes, opens the diplomatic bags himself while the slow-witted cabbagehead remains outside. — 1983
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. — 1984
4. •
   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. — 1947
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. — 1992
6. •
   A roughly spherical aggregation of a mineral.

   • The iron content of these growth habits varies as follows: plates and rosettes honeycomb cabbagehead. — 1980