Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cabbage_tree

3 senses of cabbage tree

Sense 1
cabbage palm, cabbage tree, Livistona australis -- (Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young)
       => palm, palm tree -- (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

Sense 2
cabbage bark, cabbage-bark tree, cabbage tree, Andira inermis -- (tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic)
       => angelim, andelmin -- (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)

Sense 3
cabbage tree, grass tree, Cordyline australis -- (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)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)