Kale

Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

kale(n = noun.possession) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum - informal terms for money; Array

is a kind of money

kale(n = noun.plant) borecole, brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail - a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head; Array

is a kind of crucifer, cruciferous plant

is a member of brassica, genus brassica

has particulars: collard

is a kind of cabbage, chou

has particulars: collard greens, collards

Kale, n. [Scot. kale, kail, cale, colewort, Gael. cael; akin to Ir. cal, W. cawl, Armor. kaol. See Cole.].

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species. [1913 Webster]
See Kail, 2. [1913 Webster]

Sea kale (Bot.), a European cruciferous herb (Crambe maritima), often used as a pot herb; sea cabbage.

Kale, n. (also kail)
1 a variety of cabbage, esp. one with wrinkled leaves and no compact head. Also called curly kale.
2 US sl. money.

Etymology

ME, northern form of COLE

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