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1. tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic

2. Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

3. 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

1. : any of several palms having an edible terminal bud:

a. : an Australian palm of the genus Livistona (especially L. australis)

b. New Zealand : ti 1

c. : cabbage palmetto

2. : any of certain trees resembling in some respect a cabbage palm: as

a. : cabbage bark

b. : any of several African araliaceous trees (genus Cussonia) with soft spongy wood and sparse angular branches that terminate in tufted foliage or in a spikelike inflorescence

1. any tropical tree or treelike plant having leaves or edible shoots suggestive of cabbage.

2. an Australian palm tree of the genus Livistona, esp. L. australis.

[1715-25]

cabbage tree noun

A New Zealand plant (Cordyline australis), with bushy heads of grass-shaped leaves

Main Entry: ↑cabbage

cabbage tree,

any one of various cabbage palms.