dragon tree

English

Noun

dragon tree (plural dragon trees)

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 – the source of dragon's blood.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

     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.

Hypernyms

• tree

Related terms

• dragon's blood

Translations

tree of the genus Dracaena

• Bengali: আজদাহা গাছ (azdaha gach)
• Finnish: traakkipuu (fi)
• Italian: dracena f
• Russian: драце́на (ru) f (dracéna)
• Sango: këkë tî süä (sg)
• Swedish: drakblodsträd (sv) n

Further reading

• Dracaena (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia