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collard

[kol-erd]
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noun
  1. a variety of kale, Brassica oleracea acephala, grown in the southern U.S., having a rosette of green leaves.
  2. collards. Also called collard greens. the leaves of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
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Origin of collard

1745–55; variant of colewort, with assimilation of -wort to -ard
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  • The first dressing should be of collard leaves, prepared thus.

    Housekeeping in Old Virginia

    Marion Cabell Tyree

  • The room was furnished like an English drawing-room, even to the Collard and Collard piano.

    At the Court of the Amr

    John Alfred Gray

  • The most closely allied form now in cultivation is the collard.

  • He had fired at Collard with the object of facilitating his escape.

    Remarkable Rogues

    Charles Kingston

  • The boy whom Sergeant Collard had seen climbing the pipe must have been making for this study.

    Mike

    P. G. Wodehouse

British Dictionary definitions for collard

collard

noun
  1. a variety of the cabbage, Brassica oleracea acephala, having a crown of edible leavesSee also kale 1
  2. the leaves of this plant, eaten as a vegetable
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Word Origin

C18: variant of colewort
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Word Origin and History for collard

n.

1755, American English, corruption of colewort (Middle English) "cabbage," later especially "kale, greens;" first element related to the cole in coleslaw; for second element, see wort.

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