cordyline

Noun

(plural cordylines)

Any member of the genus Cordyline of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants, native to the western Pacific Ocean region.

Origin

From the genus name.

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5), Dracaena and Cordyline include arborescent species in which the stem increases in thickness continually by a centrifugal formation of new tissue; an extreme case is afforded by Dracaena Draco, the dragon-tree of Teneriffe.
Dracaena and the allied genus Cordyline occur in the warmer regions of the Old World.
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