| 单词 | grass tree |
| 释义 | grass tree (once / 256942 pages) n WORD FAMILY grass tree: grass trees USAGE EXAMPLES"It is odd how they can cut down so many grass trees without tools," said Harry. Various, Harper's Young People, September 7,...(2010) A fire could always be lighted with two grass trees, a small fork, and a bit of dry grass. Morris, Edward Ellis, Austral English—A dictionary of Au...(2010) Then, not far off, would be found the grass tree, from the summit of which long pendants projected like enormous blades of grass. Kingston, William Henry Giles, The Young Berringtons—The Boy Explo...(2010) 1n 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 Syn|Hyper Cordyline australis, cabbage tree tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 2n any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins Syn|Hyper Australian grass tree arborescent plant having the shape or characteristics of a tree 3n gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long Syn|Hyper Richea pandanifolia, tree heath Australian heath any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region |
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