DRACAENA

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Meaning:

An agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage

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Nouns denoting plants

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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