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Cabbage palm   /kˈæbədʒ pɑm/   Listen
Cabbage palm

noun
1.
Low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds.  Synonyms: cabbage palmetto, Sabal palmetto.
2.
West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young.  Synonym: Roystonea oleracea.
3.
Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young.  Synonyms: cabbage tree, Livistona australis.
4.
Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young.  Synonym: Euterpe oleracea.






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"Cabbage palm" Quotes from Famous Books



... a lemon-like fruit similar to those commonly called limes. Their flavour is sharp, but they are pleasant to the taste. Nut-bearing pines are common, as are likewise various sorts of palms bearing dates larger than ours but too sour to be eaten. The cabbage palm grows everywhere, spontaneously, and is used both for food and making brooms. There is a tree called guaranana, larger than orange trees, and bearing a fruit about the size of a lemon; and there is another closely resembling the chestnut. ...
— De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) - The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera • Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt

... The most useful are pigeons, which are very numerous, and a bird not unlike the Guinea fowl, except in colour, (being chiefly white,) both of which were at first so tame as to suffer themselves to be taken by hand. Of plants that afford vegetables for the table, the chief are cabbage palm, the wild plantain, the fern tree, a kind of wild spinage, and a tree which produces a diminutive fruit, bearing some resemblance to a currant. This, it is hoped, by transplanting and care, will be much improved in ...
— The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay • Arthur Phillip



Words linked to "Cabbage palm" :   palmetto, Livistona, cabbage tree, Sabal, genus Livistona, palm, palm tree, Roystonea, Euterpe, genus Roystonea, genus Euterpe, genus Sabal



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