Definition of "collard" [collard]

• See kale. (noun)
• The leaves of kale, used as a vegetable. Also called collard greens. (noun)

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• "Page 56 like, and where fresh beef is scarcely ever tasted by the poor people, the collard is a very great blessing: because when boiled in a pot with a piece of fat meat and balls of corn meal dough, having the size and appearance of ordinary white turnips, called dumplings, it makes palatable a diet which would otherwise be all but intolerable."
• "At lunch we had what we would call collard greens."
• "Things such as collard greens are basic foods of the South and pumpkin is a basic simple, seasonal food."