Collards

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  collards \col"lards\ (k[o^]l"l[~e]rdz), n. pl. [Corrupted fr.
     colewort.]
     1. Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. the leaves of a kind
        of kale ({Brassica oleracea} acephala) cultivated for that
        purpose, the collard or colewort. [Colloq. Southern U. S.]
  


     Syn: collard greens.
          [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     2. A kind of kale ({Brassica oleracea} acephala) cultivated
        in the southern United States as a vegetable.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  collards
       n : smooth-leaved kale [syn: {collard greens}]