Crossword clues for dracaena
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dracaena \Dra*c[ae]"na\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? she-dragon.] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
Note: Drac[ae]na Draco, the source of the dragon's blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic size.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Dracaena'' of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
WordNet
n. often cultivated for the decorative foliage
Wikipedia
The genus Dracaena (romanized form of the Ancient Greek δράκαινα - drakaina, "female dragon"), also called caiman lizards or water tegu, is in the teiid family, along with tegus and ameivas. Caiman lizards are found in South America in Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Brazil. These lizards spend a lot of time in the water and they inhabit marshes, streams and flooded forests. Caiman lizards often bask on branches overhanging the water.
Dracaena (, derived from the romanized form of the Ancient Greek – drakaina, "female dragon", is a genus of about 120 species of trees and succulent shrubs. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). It has also formerly been separated (sometimes with Cordyline) into the family Dracaenaceae or placed in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae).
The majority of the species are native to Africa, with a few in southern Asia and one in tropical Central America. The segregate genus Pleomele is now generally included in Dracaena. The genus Sansevieria is closely related, and has recently been synonymized under Dracaena in the Kubitzki system.
Dracaena (romanized form of the Greek δράκαινα - drakaina, "female dragon") can mean:
- Drakaina (mythology), a Greek mythological entity
- Dracaena (plant), a genus of plants
- Cordyline australis, a plant commonly known as the Dracaena palm
- Dracaena (lizard), a genus of lizard
- Dracena, a town in Brazil
- Dracaena, a fictional dragon-woman in Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Usage examples of "dracaena".
These schefflera, dracaena, and ficus trees sprouted from enormous in-ground squares scattered around the terra-cotta floor.
She glanced up at him and found his gaze focused on i the big dracaena knocked on its side, its terra-cotta pot a :i!
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
Cacti with spiny arms and flowers like dracaena rose up periodically, as did the huge robotic forms of power-line towers.
Justin the Foreign Office white hope and nohoper, photographed with his friend the dracaena palm.
As did the the coat closet immediately to its right, the closet hidden from the rest of the room by the meter-tall planter from which grew diffenbachia, dracaena, and schefflera.
The blast had stripped most of the leaves off the dracaena, diffenbachia, and scnefflera in the planter, and snapped all their stems.
A portion of the mixed food he preserves unburnt, wraps it in a dracaena leaf, and puts it beside the case which contains the relics of the man to whose ghost the sacrifice has been offered.