australian grass tree

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgrass tree

   Broaderarborescent plant

   Part ofXanthorroea
2. 2.

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

   SynonymsRichea dracophylla

   BroaderAustralian heath

   Part ofRichea

Questions about australian grass tree

What does australian grass tree mean?

australian grass tree means "any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for australian grass tree?

Close synonyms include grass tree, Richea dracophylla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is australian grass tree a common word?

australian grass tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.