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dracaena
/dɹəˈkeɪ.nə/
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What does dracaena mean?
noun
- Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
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The yew, chestnut, oak, plane-tree, deciduous cypress, bombax, mimosa, caesalpina, hymenaea, and dracaena, appear to me to be the plants which, in different climates, present specimens of the most extraordinary growth.
Some Kenyahs tie the red leaves of the DRACAENA below the prow of their boat whenever they go far from home, believing that this protects them from all danger of attack by crocodiles.