(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination of Dracaena loureiri, a Thai medicinal plant possessing anti-bacterial activity, has led to the isolation of two new representatives, 1 and 2, of a rare skeleton of homoisoflavans.
(2) Shoot tips of actively growing terminals were selected as explants for Cordyline and Dracaena, and lateral buds were employed for Scindapsus and Syngonium.
(3) The first four members of a new class of natural products, the retrodihydrochalcones, have been isolated from the leaves of Dracaena loureiri.
(4) Procedures were established for clonal multiplication in vitro of Cordyline terminalis Kunth, Dracaena godseffiana Hort., Scindapsus aureus Engler, and Syngonium podophyllum Schott.
Liliaceous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.
(a.) Like the blossom of a lily in general form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Large quantities of intact generative cells and their protoplasts were isolated from pollen protoplasts of four liliaceous plants, and their structural features were investigated.
(2) Morex) stems and leaf sheaths, was used to elucidate the chemical structures of several oligomeric fructans extracted from liliaceous and graminaceous species.
(3) The premeiotic and meiotic stages are described in the pollen mother cells of the liliaceous plant Eremurus.
(4) XET was detected in extracts of the growing portions of dicotyledons, monocotyledons (graminaceous and liliaceous) and bryophytes.