cordyline australis

1. 1.

   elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand

   Synonymscabbage treegrass tree

   Broadertree

   Part ofCordyline

Questions about cordyline australis

What does cordyline australis mean?

cordyline australis means "elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand".

What is another word for cordyline australis?

Close synonyms include cabbage tree, grass tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cordyline australis a common word?

cordyline australis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.