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grass tree
(encz) | grass tree, n: |
Grass tree
(gcide) | Grass tree \Grass" tree"\ (Bot.)
(a) An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrh[oe]a, 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.
(b) A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
[1913 Webster] |
grass tree
(wn) | grass tree
n 1: 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 [syn: cabbage tree, grass tree, {Cordyline
australis}]
2: 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, {Australian grass
tree}]
3: gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering
leaves 3 to 5 feet long [syn: tree heath, grass tree,
Richea pandanifolia] |
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grass tree family
(encz) | grass tree family, n: |
Grass tree
(gcide) | Grass tree \Grass" tree"\ (Bot.)
(a) An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrh[oe]a, 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.
(b) A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
[1913 Webster] |
australian grass tree
(wn) | Australian grass tree
n 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, {Australian
grass tree}]
2: stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of
branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers [syn:
Australian grass tree, Richea dracophylla] |
grass tree family
(wn) | grass tree family
n 1: one of many subfamilies into which some classification
systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
[syn: Xanthorrhoeaceae, family Xanthorrhoeaceae, {grass
tree family}] |
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