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Cabbage tree   /kˈæbədʒ tri/   Listen
Cabbage tree

noun
1.
Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young.  Synonyms: cabbage palm, Livistona australis.
2.
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.
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.  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


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