red cabbage

1. 1.

   cabbage plant with a compact head of reddish purple leaves

   Broaderhead cabbage
2. 2.

   compact head of purplish-red leaves

   Broaderhead cabbage

Questions about red cabbage

What does red cabbage mean?

red cabbage means "cabbage plant with a compact head of reddish purple leaves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is red cabbage a common word?

red cabbage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.