Definition of cabbage palm
: a palm with terminal buds eaten as a vegetable
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The rates of mortality among cabbage palms and red cedars was soaring; new vegetation, better suited to salt, was springing up in their place.
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The rates of mortality among cabbage palms and red cedars was soaring
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First Known Use of cabbage palm
1770
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