cabbage palm

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• cabbage-palm

Noun

cabbage palm (plural cabbage palms)

1. Any of several different types of palms and palm-like plants.
   1. (Australia) Any of several palms of the genera Corypha and Livistona of northeastern and central Australia. [from 18th c.]
      • 1791, Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769, page 54:

        Their cabbage, which is known by the name of cabbage-palm, is susceptible of many modes of dressing, and may be ranked among the most delicious foods.

      • 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 242:

        It isn't bad when we come back; we notice little similarities to our dreaming places. The cabbage palms, the fire pit, the family.

      1. Corypha utan, an East Asian fan palm (including Northern Australia)
      2. Livistona australis, an Australian palm
   2. Cordyline fruticosa, a tropical tree native to Asia and Polynesia
   3. Euterpe oleracea (acai palm), a Brazilian palm tree
   4. Roystonea oleracea, a Caribbean palm
   5. Sabal palmetto, native to the south-eastern USA, Cuba and the Bahamas

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