a tree, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, having clusters of sword-shaped leaves at the tips of its branches: family Agavaceae. It is a source of dragon's blood
dragon tree in American English
noun
1.
a tall, treelike plant, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, scarce in the wild but common in cultivation, yielding a variety of dragon's blood
2.
any of several other plants of the genus Dracaena, as D. marginata, having long, sword-shaped, variously colored leaves, cultivated as ornamentals
Word origin
[1605–15]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ideal, inverse, pivot, surface, turnover
Examples of 'dragon tree' in a sentence
dragon tree
Seed removal by granivores beneath and outside the dragon tree canopies was assessed through a field experiment.
Aarón González-Castro, Aarón González-Castro, David Pérez-Pérez, Javier Romero, ManuelNogales 2019, 'Unraveling the Seed Dispersal System of an Insular “Ghost” Dragon Tree (Dracaena draco)in the Wild', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolutionhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2019.00039/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)