cordyline terminalis

1. 1.

   shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii

   Synonymsti

   Broadershrub

   Part ofCordyline

Questions about cordyline terminalis

What does cordyline terminalis mean?

cordyline terminalis means "shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii".

What is another word for cordyline terminalis?

Close synonyms include ti. 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 terminalis a common word?

cordyline terminalis 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.