Definition of 'cabbage tree'

Noun

1. Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
      Synonyms: cabbage palm Livistona australis
2. tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
      Synonyms: cabbage bark cabbage-bark tree Andira inermis
3. 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: grass tree Cordyline australis

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