cabbage treen.

Brit.

/ˈkabɪdʒ ˌtriː/, U.S.

/ˈkæbɪdʒ ˌtri/

Forms: see cabbage n.¹ and tree n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cabbage n.¹, tree n.

Etymology: < cabbage n.¹ + tree n.

1. Any of various palm trees whose central unexpanded mass of leaves or terminal bud is eaten like cabbage; esp. (a) the royal palm, Roystonea oleracea, native chiefly to the West Indies; also called cabbage-palm (now rare); (b) Australian either of two palms of the genus Livistona, L. inermis, of northern Australia, and L. australis, of south-eastern Australia, the leaves of which are made into baskets, hats, etc.; (c) = cabbage palmetto n. at cabbage n.¹ Compounds 4. Cf. cabbage palm n. at cabbage n.¹ Compounds 4.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > areca palms

areca1588

faufel1594

drunken date1597

pinang1606

cabbage tree1661

betel-tree1681

mountain cabbage1681

cabbage palm1770

cabbage palmetto1802

betel palm1861

catechu palm1866

supari1904

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > palmetto trees or fan-palms

palmite1555

palmetto1582

palmetto tree1582

talipot1681

tamarind-palmetto1698

Chamaerops1766

eta palm1769

cabbage palm tree1773

palmetto bush1784

swamp-cabbage1792

cabbage tree1796

saw palmetto1797

latania1799

hat palm1812

gebang1817

coco de mer?1820

itaa1832

cabbage palm1847

miriti1853

latania1856

moriche1860

broom-palm1866

ilala1868

licuala1872

fan-plant1884

tiger-grass1884

buri1890

latanier1929

Washingtonia1945

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > palms yielding fibre or thatching materials

satchel-palm1658

rattan1681

palmetto thatch1756

thatch-tree1756

rotan1771

cabbage palm tree1773

cabbage tree1796

tucum1810

gomuti1811

hat palm1812

gebang1817

tucuma1824

nikau1827

piassava1841

cabbage palm1847

bussu1850

jupati1856

timite1858

Raphia1866

thatch1866

thatch-palm1866

toquilla1877

raffia palm1897

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 13 All sorts of fruit-bearing Trees, as Orange-trees, a sort of Cabbage trees, rag'd with berries.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 87 The Cabbage Trees of this Isle [sc. John Fernando's] are but small and low; yet afford a good head, and the Cabbage very sweet.

1732 M. W. Mosqueto Indian in Churchill's Coll. Voy. VI. 296/2 Cabbage-trees of a great height,..they have plenty of; the tops of..which being boil'd, are very good green meat.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 342 The Barbadoes Cabbage Tree..is the most beautiful tree I have ever seen, and may be very lawfully esteemed the queen of the woods.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 123 We..saw many aneebong or cabbage trees growing on the island.

1788 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson (1793) 306 We found a vast number of cabbage-trees... They are a very good substitute for other vegetables, but one tree produces only a single cabbage.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 677 (S. Carolina) The palmetto or cabbage tree, the utility of which, in the construction of forts was experienced during the late war.

1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. xv. 213 The cocoa-nut is, in every way, a much finer palm than the cabbage-tree.

1864 S. Moody Palm Tree 308 As an Oreodoxa,..closely allied to the King Palm, why should not the glory of the Caribbean Islands be known as the Queen Palm instead of the Cabbage Tree.

1914 H. M. Vaughan Australasian Wander-year 214 Here the tall straggling gum-trees are thickly interspersed with the ‘cabbage-tree’ and the bangalow palms.

1931 Sci. Monthly Mar. 245/2 The only palms known to grow naturally in North Carolina are the cabbage tree and the blue stem.

2001 Tampa Bay Mag. Sept. 58/1 These palms, also known as sabal palmettos, palmetto palms,..and cabbage trees, grow extensively and effortlessly here.

2. Any of various other trees and shrubs resembling cabbage in some way, as form, leaf shape, etc., or which are eaten like or taste like cabbage; esp. (a) the composite plant Kleinia neriifolia (formerly Cacalia kleinia), which has clusters of thick sessile leaves and is endemic to the Canary Islands (obsolete); (b) any of various plants endemic to the island of St Helena; esp. any of several pachycaul tree-like plants of the genus Senecio, having thick fleshy leaves clustered at the end of the branches.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants

wild sagea1400

yellow devil's-bita1400

white golda1425

cotula1578

golden cudweed1597

golden tuft1597

rattlesnake root1682

Cape tansy?1711

hawkbit1713

ambrosia1731

cabbage tree1735

hog's eye1749

Osteospermum1754

ox-tongue1760

scentless mayweed1800

old man's beard1804

ox-eye1818

echinacea1825

sheep's beard1836

shepherd's beard1840

cat's-ear1848

goatweed1869

silversword1888

khaki bush1907

venidium1937

khaki bos1947

Namaqualand daisy1963

1735 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (new ed.) I. at Cacalianthemum The first of these Plants was brought from the Canary Islands... It hath been, by some unskilful Persons, called the Cabbage Tree, but for no other Reason than that the Stem of this Plant does in some measure resemble that of a Cabbage.

1782 D. Lowellin Admirable Trav. 32 I had tropical fruits of all kinds in the greatest abundance..to which I may add the cabbage tree, bread-fruit, and exceedingly good spinage.

1805 F. Duncan Descr. Island St. Helena iv. 140 There is another tree, which the inhabitants call the Cabbage Tree, from its supposed resemblance to a cabbage.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 181/2 Commidendron rugosum... Little Bastard Gum-wood, or Small-umbelled Cabbage tree, of St. Helena.

1903 E. L. Jackson St. Helena 342 Solidago rotundiflora... A native of St. Helena, where it is called the Bastard Gum-wood by some, and Cabbage tree by others.

2009 J. Adams Species Richness viii. 350 An example is the conservation of the strange trees from the daisy family—known locally as cabbage trees—of the Island of St. Helena.

3. Any of several palm-like monocotyledonous plants of the genus Cordyline native to New Zealand, esp. C. australis, the young shoot of which is edible.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > palm-lily

cabbage tree1769

ti-tree1820

ti1832

cordyline1866

club palm1884

palm lily1884

1769 J. Cook Jrnl. 29 Oct. (1955) I. 186 We..found one Cabbage tree which we cut down for the sake of the Cabbage.

1848 T. Arnold Let. 26 Apr. (1966) 41 There is a certain stiffness in the appearance of a New Zealand forest..but some of the trees and shrubs are very beautiful... There is the cabbage-tree [etc.].

1884 Cent. Mag. Apr. 920 The settlers with strange perversity have dubbed this the cabbage-tree.

1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs iv. 65 Cabbage trees only grow thick on good land.

1984 Metro (Auckland) Mar. 128/3 Cabbage tree blooms smell as bright as their appearance, like a Guy Fawkes sparkler.

2010 Brisbane News (Nexis) 28 Apr. 49 New Zealand is the home of Cordyline australis, or cabbage tree, which is included in many a modern garden for its elongated, spiky foliage.

4. Any of several trees of the genus Andira; esp. the cabbage bark tree, A. inermis; also with distinguishing word. Now rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > cabbage-bark tree

cabbage bark tree1777

cabbage tree1796

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 164 The black-cabbage tree, the wood of which..is in high estimation among carpenters and joiners.

1803 B. S. Barton Elements Bot. iii. 105 The bark of the Cabbage-tree (Geoffroya inermis) is used, with the same intention, in the West-Indies [as a remedy against worms].

1862 P. L. Simmonds Technologist II. 272 The bark of the ‘Cabbage tree’, Andira inermis, H.B., a native of the West Indies, was formerly considered a vermifuge, but its use now is almost, if not quite, obsolete.

1888 Amer. Druggist Sept. 179/1 It is customary to call the former [sc. A. inermis] ‘Jamaica cabbage tree (bark)’, and the latter [sc. A. retusa] ‘Surinam cabbage tree (bark)’.

1908 J. R. Baterden Timber 149 Angelin (Andira inermis), sometimes known as the cabbage tree.., produces a fine timber when full grown.

1914 E. F. Phillips Porto Rican Beekeeping 12 Moca, cabbage tree (Andira jamaicense). Sometimes used for coffee shade, but is inferior for this purpose... An excellent honey plant.

1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 37 A[ndira] inermis..planted for shelter belts in WI (cabbage tree).

5. Australian. In full cabbage tree hat. A wide-brimmed hat woven from leaves of the Australian cabbage tree, Livistona australis.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > palm leaves > types of

cabbage tree1836

cabbage leaf hat1846

1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales 335 This hat, made of white filament of the cabbage-tree, seemed to excite the attention of the whole party.]

1836 Sydney Gaz. 14 July John Williams, stood indicted for stealing on the 28th June last, one cabbage tree hat.

1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 171 Raising his cabbage-tree, allowed the chin-strap to drop to its place.

1908 G. Seagram Bushmen All xxviii. 285 He looked round, waved his cabbage tree as a last farewell, and disappeared down the slope.

1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country i. 2 He..shook the water from his wide-brimmed cabbage-tree hat, with its bobbing corklets attached as fly chasers.

1990 J. Hodgins Innocent Cities vi. 67 He wore an expensive suit, and a cabbage-tree hat with blue streamers down his back.

Compounds

† cabbage-tree worm n. Obsolete the large larva of a tropical American palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum, which is found in the hearts of cabbage trees and other palms and was formerly eaten as a delicacy.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > grubs

cabbage-tree worm1796

witchetty1891

bardy1926

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > that destroys or eats plants > that devours cabbage

cabbage worm1668

cabbage-tree worm1796

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. 23 Groe-groe, or cabbage-tree worms, as they are called in Surinam..In taste they partake of all the spices of India..these worms are produced in all the palm-trees, when beginning to rot.

1865 F. Cowan Curious Facts Hist. Insects 69 Its larva, called the Grou-grou, or Cabbage-tree worm..resides in the tenderest part of the smaller palm-trees.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cabbage tree
释义	cabbage treen. Brit. /ˈkabɪdʒ ˌtriː/, U.S. /ˈkæbɪdʒ ˌtri/ Forms: see cabbage n.¹ and tree n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cabbage n.¹, tree n. Etymology: < cabbage n.¹ + tree n. 1. Any of various palm trees whose central unexpanded mass of leaves or terminal bud is eaten like cabbage; esp. (a) the royal palm, Roystonea oleracea, native chiefly to the West Indies; also called cabbage-palm (now rare); (b) Australian either of two palms of the genus Livistona, L. inermis, of northern Australia, and L. australis, of south-eastern Australia, the leaves of which are made into baskets, hats, etc.; (c) = cabbage palmetto n. at cabbage n.¹ Compounds 4. Cf. cabbage palm n. at cabbage n.¹ Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > areca palms areca1588 faufel1594 drunken date1597 pinang1606 cabbage tree1661 betel-tree1681 mountain cabbage1681 cabbage palm1770 cabbage palmetto1802 betel palm1861 catechu palm1866 supari1904 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > palmetto trees or fan-palms palmite1555 palmetto1582 palmetto tree1582 talipot1681 tamarind-palmetto1698 Chamaerops1766 eta palm1769 cabbage palm tree1773 palmetto bush1784 swamp-cabbage1792 cabbage tree1796 saw palmetto1797 latania1799 hat palm1812 gebang1817 coco de mer?1820 itaa1832 cabbage palm1847 miriti1853 latania1856 moriche1860 broom-palm1866 ilala1868 licuala1872 fan-plant1884 tiger-grass1884 buri1890 latanier1929 Washingtonia1945 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > palms yielding fibre or thatching materials satchel-palm1658 rattan1681 palmetto thatch1756 thatch-tree1756 rotan1771 cabbage palm tree1773 cabbage tree1796 tucum1810 gomuti1811 hat palm1812 gebang1817 tucuma1824 nikau1827 piassava1841 cabbage palm1847 bussu1850 jupati1856 timite1858 Raphia1866 thatch1866 thatch-palm1866 toquilla1877 raffia palm1897 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 13 All sorts of fruit-bearing Trees, as Orange-trees, a sort of Cabbage trees, rag'd with berries. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 87 The Cabbage Trees of this Isle [sc. John Fernando's] are but small and low; yet afford a good head, and the Cabbage very sweet. 1732 M. W. Mosqueto Indian in Churchill's Coll. Voy. VI. 296/2 Cabbage-trees of a great height,..they have plenty of; the tops of..which being boil'd, are very good green meat. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 342 The Barbadoes Cabbage Tree..is the most beautiful tree I have ever seen, and may be very lawfully esteemed the queen of the woods. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 123 We..saw many aneebong or cabbage trees growing on the island. 1788 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson (1793) 306 We found a vast number of cabbage-trees... They are a very good substitute for other vegetables, but one tree produces only a single cabbage. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 677 (S. Carolina) The palmetto or cabbage tree, the utility of which, in the construction of forts was experienced during the late war. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. xv. 213 The cocoa-nut is, in every way, a much finer palm than the cabbage-tree. 1864 S. Moody Palm Tree 308 As an Oreodoxa,..closely allied to the King Palm, why should not the glory of the Caribbean Islands be known as the Queen Palm instead of the Cabbage Tree. 1914 H. M. Vaughan Australasian Wander-year 214 Here the tall straggling gum-trees are thickly interspersed with the ‘cabbage-tree’ and the bangalow palms. 1931 Sci. Monthly Mar. 245/2 The only palms known to grow naturally in North Carolina are the cabbage tree and the blue stem. 2001 Tampa Bay Mag. Sept. 58/1 These palms, also known as sabal palmettos, palmetto palms,..and cabbage trees, grow extensively and effortlessly here. 2. Any of various other trees and shrubs resembling cabbage in some way, as form, leaf shape, etc., or which are eaten like or taste like cabbage; esp. (a) the composite plant Kleinia neriifolia (formerly Cacalia kleinia), which has clusters of thick sessile leaves and is endemic to the Canary Islands (obsolete); (b) any of various plants endemic to the island of St Helena; esp. any of several pachycaul tree-like plants of the genus Senecio, having thick fleshy leaves clustered at the end of the branches. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants wild sagea1400 yellow devil's-bita1400 white golda1425 cotula1578 golden cudweed1597 golden tuft1597 rattlesnake root1682 Cape tansy?1711 hawkbit1713 ambrosia1731 cabbage tree1735 hog's eye1749 Osteospermum1754 ox-tongue1760 scentless mayweed1800 old man's beard1804 ox-eye1818 echinacea1825 sheep's beard1836 shepherd's beard1840 cat's-ear1848 goatweed1869 silversword1888 khaki bush1907 venidium1937 khaki bos1947 Namaqualand daisy1963 1735 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (new ed.) I. at Cacalianthemum The first of these Plants was brought from the Canary Islands... It hath been, by some unskilful Persons, called the Cabbage Tree, but for no other Reason than that the Stem of this Plant does in some measure resemble that of a Cabbage. 1782 D. Lowellin Admirable Trav. 32 I had tropical fruits of all kinds in the greatest abundance..to which I may add the cabbage tree, bread-fruit, and exceedingly good spinage. 1805 F. Duncan Descr. Island St. Helena iv. 140 There is another tree, which the inhabitants call the Cabbage Tree, from its supposed resemblance to a cabbage. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 181/2 Commidendron rugosum... Little Bastard Gum-wood, or Small-umbelled Cabbage tree, of St. Helena. 1903 E. L. Jackson St. Helena 342 Solidago rotundiflora... A native of St. Helena, where it is called the Bastard Gum-wood by some, and Cabbage tree by others. 2009 J. Adams Species Richness viii. 350 An example is the conservation of the strange trees from the daisy family—known locally as cabbage trees—of the Island of St. Helena. 3. Any of several palm-like monocotyledonous plants of the genus Cordyline native to New Zealand, esp. C. australis, the young shoot of which is edible. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > palm-lily cabbage tree1769 ti-tree1820 ti1832 cordyline1866 club palm1884 palm lily1884 1769 J. Cook Jrnl. 29 Oct. (1955) I. 186 We..found one Cabbage tree which we cut down for the sake of the Cabbage. 1848 T. Arnold Let. 26 Apr. (1966) 41 There is a certain stiffness in the appearance of a New Zealand forest..but some of the trees and shrubs are very beautiful... There is the cabbage-tree [etc.]. 1884 Cent. Mag. Apr. 920 The settlers with strange perversity have dubbed this the cabbage-tree. 1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs iv. 65 Cabbage trees only grow thick on good land. 1984 Metro (Auckland) Mar. 128/3 Cabbage tree blooms smell as bright as their appearance, like a Guy Fawkes sparkler. 2010 Brisbane News (Nexis) 28 Apr. 49 New Zealand is the home of Cordyline australis, or cabbage tree, which is included in many a modern garden for its elongated, spiky foliage. 4. Any of several trees of the genus Andira; esp. the cabbage bark tree, A. inermis; also with distinguishing word. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > cabbage-bark tree cabbage bark tree1777 cabbage tree1796 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 164 The black-cabbage tree, the wood of which..is in high estimation among carpenters and joiners. 1803 B. S. Barton Elements Bot. iii. 105 The bark of the Cabbage-tree (Geoffroya inermis) is used, with the same intention, in the West-Indies [as a remedy against worms]. 1862 P. L. Simmonds Technologist II. 272 The bark of the ‘Cabbage tree’, Andira inermis, H.B., a native of the West Indies, was formerly considered a vermifuge, but its use now is almost, if not quite, obsolete. 1888 Amer. Druggist Sept. 179/1 It is customary to call the former [sc. A. inermis] ‘Jamaica cabbage tree (bark)’, and the latter [sc. A. retusa] ‘Surinam cabbage tree (bark)’. 1908 J. R. Baterden Timber 149 Angelin (Andira inermis), sometimes known as the cabbage tree.., produces a fine timber when full grown. 1914 E. F. Phillips Porto Rican Beekeeping 12 Moca, cabbage tree (Andira jamaicense). Sometimes used for coffee shade, but is inferior for this purpose... An excellent honey plant. 1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 37 A[ndira] inermis..planted for shelter belts in WI (cabbage tree). 5. Australian. In full cabbage tree hat. A wide-brimmed hat woven from leaves of the Australian cabbage tree, Livistona australis. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > palm leaves > types of cabbage tree1836 cabbage leaf hat1846 1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales 335 This hat, made of white filament of the cabbage-tree, seemed to excite the attention of the whole party.] 1836 Sydney Gaz. 14 July John Williams, stood indicted for stealing on the 28th June last, one cabbage tree hat. 1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 171 Raising his cabbage-tree, allowed the chin-strap to drop to its place. 1908 G. Seagram Bushmen All xxviii. 285 He looked round, waved his cabbage tree as a last farewell, and disappeared down the slope. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country i. 2 He..shook the water from his wide-brimmed cabbage-tree hat, with its bobbing corklets attached as fly chasers. 1990 J. Hodgins Innocent Cities vi. 67 He wore an expensive suit, and a cabbage-tree hat with blue streamers down his back. Compounds † cabbage-tree worm n. Obsolete the large larva of a tropical American palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum, which is found in the hearts of cabbage trees and other palms and was formerly eaten as a delicacy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > grubs cabbage-tree worm1796 witchetty1891 bardy1926 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > that destroys or eats plants > that devours cabbage cabbage worm1668 cabbage-tree worm1796 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. 23 Groe-groe, or cabbage-tree worms, as they are called in Surinam..In taste they partake of all the spices of India..these worms are produced in all the palm-trees, when beginning to rot. 1865 F. Cowan Curious Facts Hist. Insects 69 Its larva, called the Grou-grou, or Cabbage-tree worm..resides in the tenderest part of the smaller palm-trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1661
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