'collards' definitions:
Definition of 'collards'
(from WordNet)
noun
Kale that has smooth leaves [syn: collards, collard greens]
Definition of 'collards'
From: 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]