dracaena
8.4
A tropical plant with stiff, long pointed leaves often grown indoors for decoration
- noun
- /drəˈsiːnə/
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drácena
- For easy indoor gardening, many people choose to grow a dracaena due to its low maintenance requirements.
Examples
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Brian, come in or go home, but don't crush my dracaena marginatas.
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I show him the spiky-leafed dracaena I bought from Sadie in honor of heat.
Fiction book (1992) -
Or my dracaena.
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The dracaena adds a touch of greenery to the living room with its tall, sword-shaped leaves.
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She decorated her office with a dracaena plant that thrives in low light and improves air quality.
Compounds
Dracaena draco
- Specialized
9.9
A tall tree-like plant from the Canary Islands that makes a sticky red sap called dragon's blood
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dracaena comes from the Greek drakaina, which means 'female dragon', and a helpful way to remember it is that some plants in this group give a red sap called 'dragon's blood'. That's why the name dracaena fits these tropical, ornamental plants with long, stiff, sword-like leaves often kept indoors.
