AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Australian grass tree mean? 

• AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE (noun)
  The noun AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE has 2 senses:

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

2. stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers

  Familiarity information: AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Australian grass tree; Richea dracophylla

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)