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Cabbage tree

noun

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

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.

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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Words linked to "Cabbage tree" : palm tree, palm, Livistona, genus Livistona, andelmin, Cordyline, tree, angelim, genus Cordyline, Andira, genus Andira