| cabbage tree 
 
 1. tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood;
 bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
 • Syn:
 cabbage bark, cabbage-bark tree, Andira inermis
 • Hypernyms:
 angelim, andelmin
 • Member Holonyms:
 Andira, genus Andira
 2. Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
 • Syn:
 cabbage palm, Livistona australis
 • Hypernyms:
 palm, palm tree
 • Member Holonyms:
 Livistona, genus Livistona
 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
 • Syn:
 grass tree, Cordyline australis
 • Hypernyms:
 tree
 • Member Holonyms:
 Cordyline, genus Cordyline
 
 
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