From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Cordyline \Cordyline\ n.
a genus of Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs remarkable for
the fact that fragments of the trunk will regrow to form
whole plants.
Syn: genus Cordyline.
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
Cordyline
n 1: Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk
will regrow to form whole plants [syn: Cordyline, genus
Cordyline]