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Meanings of grass tree in English
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.
See moreGaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long.
Synonyms
Examples for "cabbage tree"
Examples for "cabbage tree"
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The last ancient cabbage tree on Dicksons Hill on the Otago Peninsula.
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We found also one cabbage tree, which we cut down for the cabbages.
3
A Punga log with a weta poking out, a striped gecko and cabbage tree moth.
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Ball, though an inestimable acquisition to our colony, produces little else than the mountain cabbage tree.
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The genius of the cabbage tree moth Read more Audio 3:09 PM.
Any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins.
Usage of grass tree in English
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It was she who spread the blankets on Wombo's beds of grass tree tops and dry herbage.
2
We frequently met with the grass tree (Xanthorrhaea.)
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Where the other sticks were from grass trees this was something else.
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And tiniest bird's-eye burns deep blue in thickets of tall grass trees!
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For twelve days he pursued this course, subsisting on native roots and boiled tops of grass trees.
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We saw also grass trees of two varieties, which, in damp localities, had attained a height of forty feet.
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Butler wrote an article on grass trees, called Blackboys, in 1947, when he was 17.
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Grass trees had been abundant on our line of route to-day, and for the first time we met with the Xamia.
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There is no timber around the lake, beyond a few xamias, grass trees, and some stunted tea-trees; neither was there much grass.
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It was a barren hump; upon its crest, and alone in barbaric majesty, stood a row of grass trees silhouetted against the sunset sky.