red cabbage

noun
a variety of the edible cabbage, Brassica oleracea, having deep reddish-purple leaves.

Origin:
1605–15

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red cabbage

noun
1. cabbage plant with a compact head of reddish purple leaves 
2. compact head of purplish-red leaves 
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Red cabbage is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
Cut lettuce is often mixed with other types of lettuce or greens, shredded
  carrot and/or red cabbage to produce a bag salad mix.
The chemical in beets and red cabbage is called anthocyanin.
Some pigments in leaves--such as the reddish-purple in rhubarb or red
  cabbage--are not involved in photosynthesis at all.
Challenge students to put the liquids into categories relative to the color
  they produced when mixed with the red cabbage juice.
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