grass tree

1. 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 Zealand

   Synonymscabbage treeCordyline australis

   Broadertree

   Part ofCordyline
2. 2.

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

   SynonymsAustralian grass tree

   Broaderarborescent plant

   Part ofXanthorroea
3. 3.

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

   Synonymstree heathRichea pandanifolia

   BroaderAustralian heath

   Part ofRichea

Questions about grass tree

What does grass tree mean?

grass tree means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for grass tree?

Close synonyms include cabbage tree, Cordyline australis, Australian grass tree, tree heath, Richea pandanifolia. 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 grass tree a common word?

grass tree is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.