dragon's blood tree en · NOUN
Meanings
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Any member of the genus Dracaena of trees, especially Dracaena cinnabari.
But I must now say a word regarding plants interesting for their products, of which we have several in Socotra. And first mention may be here given to the dragon's-blood tree, Dracæna Cinnabari.
1888, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Botany of Socotra (The Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; XXXI), Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, page xxxvii:
- Any member of the species Harungana madagascariensis of trees of Madagascar.
Forms
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| dragon blood-tree | alternative | lexicographic | |
| dragon's-blood-tree | alternative | lexicographic | |
| dragon's-blood tree | alternative | lexicographic | |
| dragon's blood trees | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| dragon blood tree | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (1)
ny mbuluni (Harungana madagascariensis)