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means A leafy, broad-leafed vegetable in the cabbage family, grown and cooked especially in Southern U.S. cuisine, usually braised with smoked meat, vinegar, and time.

from The 'collard' comes from 'colewort,' an old English term for cabbage-family plants — 'cole' being the same root that gives us 'coleslaw' and 'kale,' ultimately tracing back to the Latin 'caulis' meaning stem or cabbage. The greens themselves came to the American South by way of European settlers and enslaved Africans, who were often allotted the toughest, least-wanted parts of what was grown — and turned them, through slow cooking and seasoning, into a dish now central to Southern and soul food traditions.