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cabbage trees

cabbage trees is the plural of cabbage tree.

Meaning of cabbage tree

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

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Questions about cabbage trees

What is cabbage trees the plural of?
Cabbage trees is the plural of cabbage tree.

Words near cabbage trees in the dictionary

  1. cabbage salads
  2. Cabbage Town
  3. cabbage tree
  4. Cabbage Tree Creek
  5. Cabbage Tree Island
  6. cabbage trees
  7. cabbage white
  8. cabbage whites
  9. cabbage worm
  10. cabbage worms
  11. cabbage-bark

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