different between woody vs dracaena

English

Etymology

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?di/
• Rhymes: -?di
• Homophone: woodie

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. Covered in woods; wooded.
2. (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.

3. Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
4. (botany) Non-herbaceous.

5. (botany) Lignified.

Translations

Noun

woody (plural woodies)

1. Alternative form of woodie

See also

• wooden
• wooded

English

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

dracaena (plural dracaenas)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

See also

• dracaena on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dracaena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Etymology

Romanized form of the Ancient Greek ???????? (drákaina, “she-dragon”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dra?kae?.na/, [d??ä?käe?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dra?t??e.na/, [d????t????n?]

Noun

dracaena f (genitive dracaenae); first declension

1. a she-dragon
2. vocative singular of dracaena

Declension

First-declension noun.

Noun

dracaen? f

1. ablative singular of dracaena

Spanish

Noun

dracaena f (plural dracaenas)

1. dracaena