CABBAGE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cabbage tree mean? 

• CABBAGE TREE (noun)
  The noun CABBAGE TREE has 3 senses:

1. Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

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

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

  Familiarity information: CABBAGE TREE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABBAGE TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cabbage palm; cabbage tree; Livistona australis

Hypernyms ("cabbage tree" is a kind of...):

palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

Holonyms ("cabbage tree" is a member of...):

genus Livistona; Livistona (fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree

Hypernyms ("cabbage tree" is a kind of...):

andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)

Holonyms ("cabbage tree" is a member of...):

Andira; genus Andira (small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cabbage tree; Cordyline australis; grass tree

Hypernyms ("cabbage tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("cabbage tree" is a member of...):

Cordyline; genus Cordyline (Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants)