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noun
Any member of the genus Cordyline of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants, native to the western Pacific Ocean region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Cordyline
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Broader terms: liliid monocot genus
History
From the genus name.
