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GRASS TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grass tree mean? 

GRASS TREE (noun)
  The noun GRASS TREE has 3 senses:

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 Zealandplay

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

3. gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet longplay

  Familiarity information: GRASS TREE used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRASS TREE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cabbage tree; Cordyline australis; grass tree

Hypernyms ("grass tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("grass tree" is a member of...):

Cordyline; genus Cordyline (Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants)


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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Australian grass tree; grass tree

Hypernyms ("grass tree" is a kind of...):

arborescent plant (having the shape or characteristics of a tree)

Holonyms ("grass tree" is a member of...):

genus Xanthorroea; Xanthorroea (grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae)


Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

grass tree; Richea pandanifolia; tree heath

Hypernyms ("grass tree" is a kind of...):

Australian heath (any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region)

Holonyms ("grass tree" is a member of...):

genus Richea; Richea (evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania)


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