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Definition of Cabbage tree

1. Noun. Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young.

2. Noun. Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic.

3. Noun. 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.

Medical Definition of Cabbage tree

1. The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. Origin: West Indian native name (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabbage Tree

cabane cabaret cabarets cabas cabbage cabbage-bark tree cabbage bark cabbage goiter cabbage palm cabbage palmetto

cabbage palms cabbage tree (current term) cabbage white cabbage whites cabbaged cabbageless cabbagelike cabbages cabbageworm cabbageworms

cabbagey cabbaging cabbagy cabbala cabbalahs cabbalas

Literary usage of Cabbage tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Cabbage-tree,n. (i )Name given to various palm trees of which the heart of the young leaves is eaten like the head of a cabbage. ..."

2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The seeds of the Barbadoes cabbage-tree were first introduced into Jamaica by Governor Knowles, who, on the 27th of January, was permitted, by his Majesty, ..."

3. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"... the cabbage tree or mock pineapple. The leaves were many of them fully thirty inches long, giving the tree a tropical appearance. ..."

4. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"The cabbage tree, I suppose, is as ugly as the stone pine is picturesque. The best specimen of the stone pine I ever saw, grows in the botanical garden at ..."

5. A Universal formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1866)
"R. Cabbage-tree bark, one part. Water, eight parts. Boil for a quarter of an hour, strain ; add four [arts of water, boil, and strain ; evaporate the united ..."

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