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    GENUS CORDYLINE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    Cordyline; genus Cordyline

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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