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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) in the mustard family, having large smooth spreading leaves.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of cabbage with the fleshy leaves scattered upon the stem instead of gathered into a head.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a variety of kale (Brassica oleracea) having smooth leaves; a type of colewort. It is grown in the southern U. S.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A Mediterranean variety of kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun variety of kale having smooth leaves

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Variant of colewort.]

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  • In the shorthand of railway telegraphers, collard stood for the phrase "What are commissions, costs and charges?"

    January 21, 2013