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Meanings of cabbage tree in English
Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic.
Synonyms
Examples for "cabbage palm"
Examples for "cabbage palm"
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Alice Cooksey and Florence were standing under a tall cabbage palm, steadying a ladder.
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As we approached the harbour, the cabbage palm became rarer, and entirely disappeared at the head of it.
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Last night we had a potful of the young wood of the cabbage palm, which tasted like asparagus.
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Here, too, are the mango, and many sorts of bananas, and the cabbage palm, another favorite resource of starving adventurers.
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The cabbage palm still growing in the creeks in great numbers, some of them very tall, with several branches on the top.
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.
See moreUsage of cabbage tree in English
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The last ancient cabbage tree on Dicksons Hill on the Otago Peninsula.
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We found also one cabbage tree, which we cut down for the cabbages.
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A Punga log with a weta poking out, a striped gecko and cabbage tree moth.
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Ball, though an inestimable acquisition to our colony, produces little else than the mountain cabbage tree.
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The genius of the cabbage tree moth Read more Audio 3:09 PM.
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Jim Baxter, if a cabbage tree marks your spot by the river, I am glad of it.
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On reaching an isolated cabbage tree one deliberately lay down, while the other backed against the tree and stood sulkily at bay.
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He laughed, and said that grogo is the name of a big maggot which is found in the Cockarito palm or cabbage tree.
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This island is well covered with wood, the chief of which is the large and dwarf mangrove, the bamboo, and the cabbage tree.
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Sent on shore and cut down a few cabbage trees for the people.
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A few pappaw, cotton and mountain- cabbage trees are scattered round them.
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All Of The Above is available on Cabbage Tree Records.
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The trust made a start today - planting 40 cabbage trees at the Christchurch Adventure Park.
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But a stickier threat awaited the bird on the same island: native pisonia, or cabbage trees.
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The shock discovery of native New Zealand cabbage trees posing as domestic shubbery throughout the English Riviera.
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Cabbage Tree Bay is divided up into three differing environments: the rocks, the sandy bottom and the kelp forest.