dragon tree
noun1
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.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:
- Related terms
- dragon's blood
- Hypernyms
- tree