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grass tree
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun grass tree has 3 senses
- grass tree(n = noun.plant) cabbage tree, cordyline australis - elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand; Array is a member of cordyline, genus cordyline
- grass tree(n = noun.plant) australian grass tree - any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins; Array is a member of genus xanthorroea, xanthorroea
- grass tree(n = noun.plant) richea pandanifolia, tree heath - gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long; Array is a kind of australian heath
is a kind of tree
is a kind of arborescent plant
is a member of genus richea, richea
CIDE DICTIONARY
grass tree,
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhœa , having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called “blackboys” from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum , and Gum Acaroides . [1913 Webster]
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