cabbage palm

American  

noun

1. any of several palms, especially those of the genus Euterpe, having terminal leaf buds that are eaten as a vegetable or in salads.

2. cabbage tree.

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cabbage palm British  

noun

1. a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa ) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage

2. a similar Brazilian palm, Euterpe oleracea

3. an Australian palm tree, Livistona australis

4. any of several plants of the genus Cordyline , grown as ornamentals: family Agavaceae

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Etymology

Origin of cabbage palm

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

On the screened front porch, a round table is supported by the base of a cabbage palm.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2015

The cabbage palm grows everywhere, spontaneously, and is used both for food and making brooms.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus

Here he found a wealth of vegetation; cabbage palm was abundant, nutmegs plentiful, and a sort of sandal-wood was growing freely.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

The big cabbage palm outside the verandah makes a curious, dry, parchment-like crackling in the wind.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

West Indian cabbage palm, which sometimes attains the height of 170 feet, with a straight cylindrical trunk.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William