Meanings
cabbage tree1
plural cabbage trees
- Cordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
Synonyms: cabbage palm
- The worm bark tree, Andira inermis.
1 more example
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 odour.
1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae Utiliores; Or, Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine
Cabbage Tree2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounCordyline australis, a hardy, widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand, a traditional source of food and fiber.
More synonyms by meaning
nounAustralian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
nountree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
nounelegant 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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cabbage tree. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabbage%20tree
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