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AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers
Synonyms:
Australian grass tree; Richea dracophylla
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Australian grass tree" is a kind of...):
Australian heath (any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region)
Holonyms ("Australian grass tree" is a member of...):
genus Richea; Richea (evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
Synonyms:
Australian grass tree; grass tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Australian grass tree" is a kind of...):
arborescent plant (having the shape or characteristics of a tree)
Holonyms ("Australian grass tree" is a member of...):
genus Xanthorroea; Xanthorroea (grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae)