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cabbage tree en · NOUN
Meanings
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Cordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
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Any of several other similar trees of the genus Cordyline.
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The worm bark tree, Andira inermis.
Andira inermis. - Smooth bastard cabbage-tree. […] The Smooth Geoffroys, Andira Inermis, or Bastard Cabbage-tree, universally known in the West Indies by the name of the Work Bark-tree, […] The bark of the cabbage tree has a disagreeable, sweet, mucilaginous taste, and a slight but disagreeable odour.
1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae Utiliores; Or, Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine:
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Synonyms
cabbage palm