wild cabbage

1. 1.

   wild original of cultivated cabbages; common in western coastal Europe

   SynonymsBrassica oleracea

   Broadercrucifer

   Part ofBrassica

Questions about wild cabbage

What does wild cabbage mean?

wild cabbage means "wild original of cultivated cabbages; common in western coastal Europe".

What is another word for wild cabbage?

Close synonyms include Brassica oleracea. 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 wild cabbage a common word?

wild cabbage 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.