cordyline
noun
cor·dy·li·ne
ˌkȯ(r)dᵊlˈī(ˌ)nē
1
capitalized : a genus of tropical Old World plants (family Liliaceae) having a creeping rhizome and often included in the genus Dracaena but distinguished by the single ovule in each cell of the ovary and by the solitary pedicles see ti compare dracaena
2
plural -s : any tree of the genus Cordyline
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, irregular from Late Greek kordylē club, from Greek, bump, swelling; from the stout caudex
- shorting
- shortish
- shortisher
- shortishest
- shortite
- Shortland Islands
- shortleaf pine
- shortlier
- shortliest
- shortlisted
- shortlisting
- shortlists
- shortly
- shortly after
- shortness
- shortness of breath
- shortnesses
- shortnose gar
- shortometer
- shortpath distillation
- shorts
- shortschat
- shortschat pine
- shortshat
- shortshat pine