1) Genus cordyline 2) Liliid monocot genus 
Cordyline is a genus of about 15 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other authors have placed the genus in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae). Cordyline is native to the western Pacific Ocean r...
[n] - Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs
genus Cordyline noun Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants