sea-cabbage
1. a. = sea-kale. b. dial. (See quot. 1904.)
| 1731 Miller Gard. Dict., Crambe. Sea-Cabbage. 1855 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. I. 140 Brassica oleracea (Sea Cabbage). 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict., Sea Cabbage, the great mullein, Verbascum thapsus. |
† 2. The sea-otter's cabbage. Obs.
| 1764 J. Grieve tr. Krasheninnikoff's Kamtschatka 131 They have three different ways of catching them: 1st. By nets placed among the sea cabbage [note Fucus marinus], whither the beavers retire in the night time. |