colewort

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Noun

colewort (uncountable)

1. A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     [W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like a solid Bowl […].

Synonyms

• (headless Brassica) cole

Related terms

• coleslaw

Translations

• French: chou, chou commun
• Italian: ravizzone, cavolo
• Portuguese: couve
• Spanish: col silvestre

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