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CABBAGE TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
cabbage tree; Cordyline australis; grass tree
Classified under:
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)
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
Synonyms:
Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
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:
Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
Synonyms:
cabbage palm; cabbage tree; Livistona australis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
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)