brassica oleracea acephala

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   a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head

   Synonymskalekailcoleborecolecolewort

   Broadercrucifer

   Narrowercollard

   Part ofBrassica

Questions about brassica oleracea acephala

What does brassica oleracea acephala mean?

brassica oleracea acephala means "a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head".

What is another word for brassica oleracea acephala?

Close synonyms include kale, kail, cole, borecole, colewort. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brassica oleracea acephala a common word?

brassica oleracea acephala is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.