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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

collards

/(kŏl"lẽrdz)/ · col·lards · IPA /kˈɑlərdz/
01 n. pl. Young cabbage, used as “greens”; esp. the leaves of a kind of kale (Brassica oleracea acephala) cultivated for that purpose, the collard or…
  1. 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.]
  2. 2.
    A kind of kale (Brassica oleracea acephala) cultivated in the southern United States as a vegetable.
Syn. collard greens.