noun
cole
kohl
noun
1
An old word for cabbage or related plants of the Brassica family.
"Farmers once grew cole in these fields for both food and oil."
How to Use Cole
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old-fashioned term for cabbage-family plants; it survives today mainly inside compound words like coleslaw.
Easily confused with
Word Forms
coles plural, coles plural
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Etymology
From Old English cawel, itself borrowed early from Latin caulis meaning "cabbage" — a relative of the words kale and cauliflower.