Australian sword lily

Australian sword lily
noun
sedgelike spring-flowering herb having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs; Australia
Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
Member Holonyms: ↑Anigozanthus, ↑genus Anigozanthus

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