CORDYLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cordyline mean? 

• CORDYLINE (noun)
  The noun CORDYLINE has 1 sense:

1. Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants

  Familiarity information: CORDYLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDYLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cordyline; genus Cordyline

Hypernyms ("Cordyline" is a kind of...):

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "Cordyline"):

Cordyline terminalis; ti (shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii)

cabbage tree; Cordyline australis; grass tree (elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand)

Holonyms ("Cordyline" is a member of...):

Agavaceae; agave family; family Agavaceae; sisal family (chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae)