Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of arborescent palm-like liliaceous plants, of 10 species, native in the East Indies, Australia, and the Pacific islands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs remarkable for the fact that fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants
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Examples
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In the very earliest days after the Northerner changed into a blog from an email, I launched a tragic post about the slaughter of the north's Cordyline australis plants following last winter's vicious temperatures.
It's the green shoots of recovery - for cordyline palms anyway 2011
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The terrestrial vegetation is still largely pristine, with very few exotics, although there are two substantial coconut groves at the principal landing sites, and Cordyline terminals and Aleurites moluccana have also been deliberately introduced, and Achyranthes aspera accidentally.
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The ti tree (Cordyline terminalis) which abounds also on the lava, is most valuable.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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_Dracæna_ (_Cordyline_) -- _Indivisa_, with long, narrow, recurved green leaves, is the one mostly used.
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They were the most unmitigated savages, cowardly and treacherous, and with the exception of the people of the villages in the vicinity of Blanche Bay, whose women wore a scanty girdle of leaves of the plant _Cordyline terminalis_, they passed their lives in a state of stark nudity.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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The ti tree (Cordyline terminalis) which abounds also on the lava, is most valuable.
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(Cordyline terminalis), treeferns, climbing ferns, parasitic ferns, and ferns themselves the prey of parasites of their own species.
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Cordyline australis 'Red Sensation' and distant maple tree.
BC Bloggers Andrea Bellamy 2010
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Cordyline australis 'Red Sensation' and distant maple tree.
BC Bloggers Andrea Bellamy 2010
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Lashara assumes Maria and her mother are dead but before the Swan can leave, they come under attack from Cordyline, who's taken control of the capital city's main defense, the Meteor Fall.
Anime Nano! 2010
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