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Australian grass tree

noun

1. any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins

• Syn: ↑grass tree

• Hypernyms: ↑arborescent plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Xanthorroea, ↑genus Xanthorroea

2. stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers

• Syn: ↑Richea dracophylla

• Hypernyms: ↑Australian heath

• Member Holonyms: ↑Richea, ↑genus Richea

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized A

1. : grass tree 1

2. : a plant (Kingia australis) of western Australia that is variously assigned to Juncaceae or Liliaceae and has an erect black woody trunk crowned with long slender silvery leaves

3. : a stout shrub (Richea dracophylla) with narrow leaves crowded at the ends of the branches and with dense terminal clusters of white or pink flowers

Useful english dictionary. 2012.