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cabbage palm en · NOUN

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1. (Australia) Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants. ▸ Any of several palms of the genera Corypha and Livistona of northeastern and central Australia.
   • Their cabbage, which is known by the name of cabbage-palm, is susceptible of many modes of dressing, and may be ranked among the most delicious foods. 1791, Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769, page 54:
   • It isn't bad when we come back; we notice little similarities to our dreaming places. The cabbage palms, the fire pit, the family. 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 242
2. (Australia) Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants. ▸ Any of several palms of the genera Corypha and Livistona of northeastern and central Australia. ▸ Corypha utan, an East Asian fan palm (including Northern Australia).
3. (Australia) Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants. ▸ Any of several palms of the genera Corypha and Livistona of northeastern and central Australia. ▸ Livistona australis, an Australian palm.
4. Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants. ▸ Cordyline fruticosa, a tropical tree native to Asia and Polynesia.
5. Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants. ▸ Euterpe oleracea (acai palm), a Brazilian palm tree.
6. Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants. ▸ Roystonea oleracea, a Caribbean palm.
7. Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants. ▸ Sabal palmetto, native to the southeastern United States, Cuba and the Bahamas.

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palmiste