dragon tree

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dragon tree

noun dragon trees

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 – a source of dragon's blood. 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.

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noun tree of the genus Dracaena

Français	dragonnier
Deutsch	Drachenbaum
Italiano	dracena
Русский	драце́на dracéna
العربية	أَيْدَع ʔaydaʕ, دَم الْأَخَوَيْن dam al-ʔaḵawayn, دَم التِنِّين dam at-tinnīn, دَم الثُعْبَان dam aṯ-ṯuʕbān, عَنْدَم ʕandam

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@misc{dragon_tree_2026,
  title = {dragon tree},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dragon%20tree},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}