grass tree
1. any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins • Syn: Australian grass tree • Hypernyms: arborescent plant • Member Holonyms: Xanthorroea, genus Xanthorroea 2. 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, Cordyline australis • Hypernyms: tree • Member Holonyms: Cordyline, genus Cordyline 3. gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long • Syn: tree heath, Richea pandanifolia • Hypernyms: Australian heath • Member Holonyms: Richea, genus Richea
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