collard
collard Lexical Profile
• noun
The large, dark-green, smooth edible leaf of a loose-leafed cultivar of Brassica oleracea, widely cooked as a staple leafy green vegetable in the southern United States, Brazil, Portugal, and parts of Africa (usually used in the plural or as 'collard greens').
"She simmered a large pot of chopped collards with smoked turkey and garlic for the family dinner."
A hardy, non-heading biennial plant of the mustard family Brassicaceae (Brassica oleracea, Acephala group), native to the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor and cultivated for its rosettes of thick, broad green leaves.
"Because the collard tolerates both summer heat and light winter frosts, it is a reliable crop for kitchen gardens."
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Word Origin & Etymology
An alteration of earlier English 'colewort', from Middle English 'colwort', literally meaning 'cabbage plant' (from Old English 'cawl', borrowed from Latin 'caulis' meaning stem or cabbage, combined with 'wyrt' meaning plant or herb).
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