CORDYLINE TERMINALIS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Cordyline terminalis; ti

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cordyline terminalis" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Cordyline terminalis" is a member of...):

Cordyline; genus Cordyline (Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants)

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