cabbage palm

Questions about cabbage palm

What does cabbage palm mean?

cabbage palm means "low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cabbage palm?

Close synonyms include cabbage palmetto, Sabal palmetto, Roystonea oleracea, cabbage tree, Livistona australis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cabbage palm a common word?

cabbage palm is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.