cabbage palm

noun

any of several palms, especially those of the genus Euterpe, having terminal leaf buds that are eaten as a vegetable or in salads.
cabbage tree ( def 2 ).

cabbage palm

a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa ) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
a similar Brazilian palm, Euterpe oleracea
an Australian palm tree, Livistona australis
any of several plants of the genus Cordyline , grown as ornamentals: family Agavaceae

First recorded in 1765–75

There were palms and wild figs in abundance, and with cabbage-palm hearts as a substitute their meat diet was abandoned.

Doors and windows may be made of wickerwork of liana, of split cabbage palm, or of a frame of sticks thatched with palm leaves.

What I call the umbrella palm, but what they call here the cabbage palm—a sort of Zamia alsophila—grew abundantly in groups.

As we approached the harbour, the cabbage palm became rarer, and entirely disappeared at the head of it.

The sacrifice element in the Christian life is further illustrated in another kind of palm known as the Cabbage palm.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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