noun
plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers
• Syn: ↑bear grass, ↑Xerophyllum tenax
• Hypernyms: ↑liliaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Xerophyllum, ↑genus Xerophyllum
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noun : a turkey beard (Xerophyllum tenax) of the mountains of the Pacific northwest having small white or cream-colored flowers in many-flowered racemes — called also pine lily
Useful english dictionary. 2012.