grass tree — noun 1. any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins • Syn: ↑Australian grass tree • Hypernyms: ↑arborescent plant • Member Holonyms: ↑Xanthorroea … Useful english dictionary
Grass tree — (Bot.) (a) An Australian plant of the genus {Xanthorrh[oe]a}, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
grass tree — grass′ tree n. pln any Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, lily family, having a stout woody stem bearing a tuft of grasslike leaves … From formal English to slang
grass tree — any Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, of the lily family, having a stout, woody stem bearing a tuft of long grasslike leaves and a dense flower spike. [1795 1805] * * * ▪ plant any plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea of the family… … Universalium
grass tree — noun Date: 1802 any of a genus (Xanthorrhoea) of Australian plants of the lily family with a thick woody trunk bearing a cluster of stiff linear leaves and a terminal spike of small flowers … New Collegiate Dictionary
Australian heath — noun any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Hyponyms: ↑epacris, ↑Australian grass tree, ↑Richea dracophylla, ↑tree heath, ↑grass tree, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Australian 2 dollar coin — Infobox Coin Country = Australia Denomination = 2 dollar piece Value = 2.00 Unit = AUD Mass = 6.60 Diameter = 20.50 Thickness = 3.20 Edge = interrupted milled Composition = Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel) Years of Minting … Wikipedia
tree heath — noun 1. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes • Syn: ↑briar, ↑brier, ↑Erica arborea • Hypernyms: ↑erica, ↑true heath • Part Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Grass frog — Grass frogs is a catch all term for a wide range of fairly unrelated frogs. The species referred to as grass frogs are typically medium sized Neobatrachia that live in or near small rivers, lakes or ponds in grassland habitat, with a greenish to… … Wikipedia
Australian residential architectural styles — can be broadly categorised as follows (there are overlaps between periods): *Pre Colonial Period 30,000 BCE 1788 CE *Old Colonial Period 1788 c. 1840 *Victorian Period c. 1840 c. 1890 *Federation Period c. 1890 c. 1915 *Inter War Period c. 1915 c … Wikipedia
