Catalan Meaning of grass tree

Herba arbre

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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.

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Herba arbre

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 => Serp d'aigua, grass skirt => Falda de gespa, grass roots => arrels, grass poly => herba poli, grass pink => Herba rosada,