Canadian French Meaning of grass tree

Herbe à poux

Other Canadian French words related to Herbe à poux

No Synonyms and anytonyms found

Definitions and Meaning of grass tree in English

Wordnet

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

Webster

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.

FAQs About the word grass tree

Herbe à poux

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

No synonyms found.

No antonyms found.

grass snake => Couleuvre à collier, grass skirt => Jupe en herbe, grass roots => grassroots, grass poly => herbe poly, grass pink => Rose des prés,