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Often cultivated for the decorative foliage
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dracaena
Word definitions for dracaena in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Dracaena'' of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. often cultivated for the decorative foliage
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.