Found 2 items, similar to Cabbage palm.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cabbage palm
cabbage palm
n 1: low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United
States having edible leaf buds [syn:
cabbage palmetto,
Sabal palmetto]
2: West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
[syn:
Roystonea oleracea]
3: Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
[syn:
cabbage tree,
Livistona australis]
4: Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten
like cabbage when young [syn:
Euterpe oleracea]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cabbage palm
Cabbage
\Cab"bage\ (k[a^]b"b[asl]j), n. [OE. cabage, fr. F.
cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage,
cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl,
hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa
cape. See
Chief,
Cape.] (Bot.)
1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the
wild
Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has
a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels
sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
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2. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like,
cabbage, for food. See
Cabbage tree, below.
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3. The cabbage palmetto. See below.
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Cabbage aphis (Zo["o]l.), a green plant-louse (
Aphis brassic[ae]
) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
Cabbage beetle (Zo["o]l.), a small, striped flea-beetle
(
Phyllotreta vittata) which lives, in the larval state,
on the roots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage
and other cruciferous plants.
Cabbage fly (Zo["o]l.), a small two-winged fly (
Anthomyia brassic[ae]
), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state,
on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to
the crop.
Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a
cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and
colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull.
Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (
Sabal Palmetto)
found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida.
Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of rose (
Rosa centifolia)
having large and heavy blossoms.
Cabbage tree,
Cabbage palm, a name given to palms having
a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the
Sabal Palmetto
of the United States, and the
Euterpe oleracea and
Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies.
Sea cabbage.(Bot.)
(a) Sea kale
(b) . The original Plant (
Brassica oleracea), from which
the cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc., have been
derived by cultivation.
Thousand-headed cabbage. See
Brussels sprouts.
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