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Cabbage Tree

see synonyms of cabbage tree

Noun

1. cabbage palm, cabbage tree, livistona australis

Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

2. andira inermis, cabbage bark, cabbage tree, cabbage-bark tree

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

3. cabbage tree, cordyline australis, grass tree

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Cabbage Tree

see synonyms of cabbage tree
noun
1. Also called: ti
a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top
2. 
any of several other similar trees of the genus Cordyline

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