noun

• Any of a number of palms or palmlike plants that resemble a cabbage in some way.

  a Caribbean palm with edible buds that resemble a cabbage (Roystonea oleraceae, family Palmae)
  an evergreen plant occurring in warm regions and grown elsewhere as a greenhouse or indoor plant (genus Cordyline, family Agavaceae)

  ‘In addition to the cabbage palm, tall trees include American elm, laurel oak, pop ash, sugarberry, sweetgum, water hickory, and water locust.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Its blinding flash lights up the cabbage palm foliage…’
  • ‘Oak-palm hammocks are home to the tall, beautiful cabbage palm, a hallmark of these fertile raised regions on the Myakka River floodplain.’
  • ‘But in the next breath he's anticipating aloud the virgin forest and spectacular cabbage palm a caller has invited him to see.’
  • ‘Rather, cabbage palms, grape vines, and exotic grasses such as guineagrass often dominate.’
  • ‘On a sultry autumn night, panther number 60, all eight-year-old male, stalked through a forest of pine trees and cabbage palms until he was stopped cold by a chain-link fence.’
  • ‘Chusan palms and cabbage palms will dot the British landscape, even in inland colder areas, towards the end of the century.’
  • ‘Chusan palms, tree ferns and cabbage palms frame a view of the large formal pond, which is dotted with water lilies and surrounded by lush herbaceous plantings.’
  • ‘Barbados's Codrington College, founded in 1830, looks like an old Oxford college set incongruously amidst stately cabbage palms.’
  • ‘Site preparation began with removal of about 250 small cabbage palms that had invaded the site.’