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Значения термина grass tree на английском

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.

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Gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long.

Any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins.

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It was she who spread the blankets on Wombo's beds of grass tree tops and dry herbage.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
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We frequently met with the grass tree (Xanthorrhaea.)
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia / From Moreton Ba...
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Where the other sticks were from grass trees this was something else.
Plague Ship
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And tiniest bird's-eye burns deep blue in thickets of tall grass trees!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917
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For twelve days he pursued this course, subsisting on native roots and boiled tops of grass trees.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
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We saw also grass trees of two varieties, which, in damp localities, had attained a height of forty feet.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Butler wrote an article on grass trees, called Blackboys, in 1947, when he was 17.
The new yorker
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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.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
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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.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
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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.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life