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NOUN (3)

1. informal terms for money;
[syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

2. a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head;
[syn: kale, kail, cole, borecole, colewort, Brassica oleracea acephala]

3. coarse curly-leafed cabbage;
[syn: kale, kail, cole]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Kale \Kale\, n. [Scot. kale, kail, cale, colewort, Gael. cael; akin to Ir. cal, W. cawl, Armor. kaol. See Cole.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species. [Written also kail, and cale.] [1913 Webster] 2. See Kail, 2. [1913 Webster] Sea kale (Bot.), a European cruciferous herb (Crambe maritima), often used as a pot herb; sea cabbage. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

kale n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 2: a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head [syn: kale, kail, cole, borecole, colewort, Brassica oleracea acephala] 3: coarse curly-leafed cabbage [syn: kale, kail, cole]