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Grass tree   Listen
noun
Grass tree  n.  (Bot.)
(a)
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.
(b)
A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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Words linked to "Grass tree" :   Cordyline, Richea, cabbage tree, Cordyline australis, grass tree family, genus Xanthorroea, tree heath



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