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DRACAENA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dracaena" is a kind of...):
agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dracaena"):
Dracaena draco; dragon tree (tall tree of the Canary Islands; source of dragon's blood)
Holonyms ("dracaena" is a member of...):
genus Dracaena (Old World tropical plants with branches ending in tufts of sword-shaped leaves; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)
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