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cabbage tree

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called ti a tree, Cordyline australis, of New Zealand having a tall branchless trunk and a palmlike top

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several other similar trees of the genus Cordyline

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Noun	1.	cabbage tree - Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young Livistona australis, cabbage palm palm tree, palm - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves genus Livistona, Livistona - fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia
	2.	cabbage tree - tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic Andira inermis, cabbage bark, cabbage-bark tree Andira, genus Andira - small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa andelmin, angelim - any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira
	3.	cabbage tree - 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 Cordyline australis, grass tree Cordyline, genus Cordyline - Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms