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cabbage tree

cabbage tree noun: cordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.

Noun

cabbage tree (plural cabbage trees)

  1. Cordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
    Synonyms:
    cabbage palm
  2. Any of several other similar trees of the genus Cordyline.
  3. 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...1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae Utiliores; Or, Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine

Proper noun capitalized: Cabbage Tree

Cabbage Tree

  1. A locality in the Shire of Hepburn, central western Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms of cabbage tree

Forms of cabbage tree

pluralcabbage trees

Questions about cabbage tree

What does cabbage tree mean?
Cabbage tree means cordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
What part of speech is cabbage tree?
Cabbage tree can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cabbage tree?
The plural of cabbage tree is cabbage trees.

Words near cabbage tree in the dictionary

  1. cabbage rose
  2. cabbage roses
  3. cabbage salad
  4. cabbage salads
  5. Cabbage Town
  6. cabbage tree
  7. Cabbage Tree Creek
  8. Cabbage Tree Island
  9. cabbage trees
  10. cabbage white
  11. cabbage whites

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