XANTHORROEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Xanthorroea mean? 

• XANTHORROEA (noun)
  The noun XANTHORROEA has 1 sense:

1. grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae

  Familiarity information: XANTHORROEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• XANTHORROEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Xanthorroea; Xanthorroea

Hypernyms ("Xanthorroea" is a kind of...):

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "Xanthorroea"):

Australian grass tree; grass tree (any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins)

Holonyms ("Xanthorroea" is a member of...):

family Liliaceae; Liliaceae; lily family (includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae)