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dragon tree en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of several trees, of the genus Dracaena, having a thick trunk, sword-shaped leaves and orange fruit, especially Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands – a source of dragon's blood.
   • Another ancient vegetable relic surviving in Macaronesia is the legendary dragon tree, whose sap, marketed as dragon’s blood, was in past times much prized as a medicine, as incense and as a dye. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

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Hypernyms

tree

Relateds

dragon's blood

Translations (22)

nl drakenbloedboom (tree of the genus Dracaena) · fi traakkipuu (tree of the genus Dracaena) · az drasena (tree of the genus Dracaena) · de Drachenbaum (tree of the genus Dracaena) · ru драце́на (tree of the genus Dracaena) · fr dragonnier (tree of the genus Dracaena) · bn আজদাহা গাছ (tree of the genus Dracaena) · sqt ʔaʕarhī́yəb (tree of the genus Dracaena) · pl dracena (tree of the genus Dracaena) · ar عَنْدَم (tree of the genus Dracaena) · it dracena (tree of the genus Dracaena) · ar دَم التِنِّين (tree of the genus Dracaena) · tr kardeşkanı ağacı (tree of the genus Dracaena) · uk драце́на (tree of the genus Dracaena) · ar أَيْدَع (tree of the genus Dracaena) · sg këkë tî süä (tree of the genus Dracaena) · sv drakblodsträd (tree of the genus Dracaena) · pl smocze drzewo (tree of the genus Dracaena) · pl drzewo smocze (tree of the genus Dracaena) · ar دَم الثُعْبَان (tree of the genus Dracaena) · pl smokowiec (tree of the genus Dracaena) · ar دَم الْأَخَوَيْن (tree of the genus Dracaena)