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-- Grass tree --
grass tree family
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Grass tree

Grass´ tree´
1.(Bot.) An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhœa, 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.
Noun1.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 red flowers; New Zealand
2.grass tree - any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
3.grass tree - gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
cabbage tree, Cordyline, Cordyline australis, genus Cordyline, tree

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