grass tree

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

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