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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 flowersplay

Synonyms:

Australian grass tree; Richea dracophylla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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 resinsplay

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)

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