grass tree

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 112499273)
    hypernym: tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
    member meronym: cordyline, genus cordyline - Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants
    synonym: cabbage tree, cordyline australis
  2. Any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins (synset 112486711)
    hypernym: arborescent plant - having the shape or characteristics of a tree
    member meronym: genus xanthorroea, xanthorroea - grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae
    synonym: australian grass tree
  3. Gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long (synset 112275408)
    hypernym: australian heath - any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region
    member meronym: genus richea, richea - evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania
    synonym: richea pandanifolia, tree heath

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