GENUS CORDYLINE
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cordyline mean?
• GENUS CORDYLINE (noun)
The noun GENUS CORDYLINE has 1 sense:
1. Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants
Familiarity information: GENUS CORDYLINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS CORDYLINE (noun)
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 ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus 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)
