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Grass tree

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  1. 1
    Any of various small trees of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae (especially of the genus Xanthorrhoea), having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grass-like leaves. Australia

    "They ascended the incline of the ridge through a tract of country where prehistoric grasstrees and cycads stood in isolation among bloodwoods and stunted hickory […]."

  2. 2
    gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long wordnet
  3. 3
    A New Zealand shrub of the genus Dracophyllum, that grows up to 12 m high and found throughout in drier climates and at higher altitudes, with slender erect or spreading branches. Rigid, leathery grass-like leaves are usually crowded towards the tip of the branchlets. Also called spiderwood.
  4. 4
    any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins wordnet
  5. 5
    Dasylirion longissimum (family Asparagaceae, Mexican grass tree)
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  1. 6
    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 wordnet
  2. 7
    Dracophyllum (family Ericaceae), a genus of about 100 species.
  3. 8
    Richea pandanifolia (family Ericaceae, giant grass tree).

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