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dragon blood-tree

dragon blood-tree is the alternative form of dragon's blood tree.

Meaning of dragon's blood tree

Noun

dragon's blood tree (plural dragon's blood trees)

  1. Any member of the genus Dracaena of trees, especially Dracaena cinnabari.
    • But I must now say a word regarding plants interesting for their products, of which we have several in Socotra. And first mention may be here given to the dragon's-blood tree, Dracæna Cinnabari.1888, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Botany of Socotra (The Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; XXXI), Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, page xxxvii
  2. Any member of the species Harungana madagascariensis of trees of Madagascar.
    Synonyms:
    orange-milk tree, haronga

Forms of dragon blood-tree

pluraldragon blood-trees

Questions about dragon blood-tree

What is dragon blood-tree the alternative form of?
Dragon blood-tree is the alternative form of dragon's blood tree.

Words near dragon blood-tree in the dictionary

  1. dragon arum
  2. dragon beam
  3. dragon beams
  4. dragon blood tree
  5. dragon blood trees
  6. dragon blood-tree
  7. dragon blood-trees
  8. dragon boat
  9. Dragon Boat Festival
  10. dragon boating
  11. dragon boats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dragon blood-tree (page history and authors); dragon's blood tree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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