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Cabbage tree

noun

Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young. Synonyms: cabbage palm, Livistona australis.

Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic. Synonyms: Andira inermis, cabbage-bark tree, cabbage bark.

Elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand. Synonyms: Cordyline australis, grass tree.

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"Cabbage tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... said the other; "oh my—— 'cabbage tree!' So there's going to be a coil about that scrubby little myrnonger; eh? Don't you fret your bingy; boss; he'll be as good a ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

Words linked to "Cabbage tree" : genus Andira, tree, genus Livistona, Cordyline, andelmin, palm tree, genus Cordyline, Livistona, angelim, palm, Andira