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Dracaena   Listen
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Dracaena  n.  (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers. Note: Dracaena Draco, the source of the dragon's blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic size.





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"Dracaena" Quotes from Famous Books



... tree (dracaena) has been identified with the dragon, and its exudation, "dragon's blood," was called cinnabar, and confused with the mineral (red sulphide of mercury), or simply with red ochre. In the Socotran dragon-myth the elephant takes the hero's role, as in the American stories ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith


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