cabbage palm

Definition of Cabbage Palm in English :

see synonyms of cabbage palm

Noun

1. cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto, sabal palmetto

low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds

2. cabbage palm, roystonea oleracea

West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

roystonea oleracea

3. cabbage palm, cabbage tree, livistona australis

Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

4. cabbage palm, euterpe oleracea

Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young

euterpe oleracea

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cabbage Palm

see synonyms of cabbage palm

noun

1.

a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage

2.

a similar Brazilian palm, Euterpe oleracea

3.

an Australian palm tree, Livistona australis

4.

any of several plants of the genus Cordyline, grown as ornamentals: family Agavaceae

Cabbage Palm

see synonyms of cabbage palm

any of several palms, as the palmetto, with terminal buds used as a vegetable

: also cabbage tree

Cabbage Palm

see synonyms of cabbage palm

n.

1. A palm (Sabal palmetto) native to the southeast United States, Cuba, and the Bahamas, having a tall single trunk, fanlike leaves, and an edible terminal bud. Also called cabbage palmetto, sabal palm.

2. Any of several other palms, such as the açaí palm, with an edible terminal bud.

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