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Definitions and Meaning of grass tree in English
grass tree (n)
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
any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
grass tree ()
A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, 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.
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Grass tree
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
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grass snake => Grass snake, grass skirt => Grass skirt, grass roots => grassroots, grass poly => grass poly, grass pink => Grass pink,
