cabbage tree

Questions about cabbage tree

What does cabbage tree mean?

cabbage tree means "Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cabbage tree?

Close synonyms include cabbage palm, Livistona australis, cabbage bark, cabbage-bark tree, Andira inermis. 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 tree a common word?

cabbage tree is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.