colewort

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.

   “Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline , Cold lettuce , and refreshing rosmarine”

   “[W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like a solid Bowl […].”