Any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins.
Stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers.
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Examples for "grass tree"
Examples for "grass tree"
1It was she who spread the blankets on Wombo's beds of grass tree tops and dry herbage.
2We frequently met with the grass tree (Xanthorrhaea.)
3Where the other sticks were from grass trees this was something else.
4And tiniest bird's-eye burns deep blue in thickets of tall grass trees!
5For twelve days he pursued this course, subsisting on native roots and boiled tops of grass trees.
1As we passed by, I noticed a solitary desert oak-tree, Casuarina decaisneana, and a number of the Australian grass -trees, Xanthorrhoea.