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}]