grass tree

English

Noun

grass tree (plural grass trees)

1. (botany) An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea (order Asparagales, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grass-like leaves, from whose centre arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail.
2. A New Zealand shrub of the genus , that grows up to 12 m high and found throughout in drier climates and at higher altitudes, with slender erect or spreading branches. Rigid, leathery grass-like leaves are usually crowded towards the tip of the branchlets. Also called spiderwood.
3. (botany) A similar Australian plant, (family ).
4. (family Asparagaceae), the Mexican grass tree
5. (family Ericaceae), a genus of about 100 species.
6. (family Ericaceae), the giant grass tree.

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

a New Zealand shrub

• Maori: inanga, īnanga, īnaka, emiemi, neinei
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References

• grass tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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