Definition of "cordyline" []

• Any member of the genus Cordyline of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants, native to the western Pacific Ocean region. (noun)

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• "Some half-hardy exotics such as cordyline and callistemon"
• "Over the past few months four palm trees, or cabbage trees (cordyline australis) as they should correctly be called, have withered away, and now the worry is that the problem will spread to others."
• "On the way back, I almost slid down the hill, past mansions behind old red-brick walls overgrown with wisteria, hedges of this and that, little verandahed weatherboard cottages and stark new houses with vertical slit windows, pre-rusted metal doors and plantings of cordyline and dianella."