genus cordyline
English Thesaurus
1. Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | liliid monocot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cordyline terminalis, ti, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cabbage tree, cordyline australis, grass tree, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | agavaceae, agave family, family agavaceae, sisal family, |
| definition | : | chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae (noun.plant) |
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