xanthorrhœa

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• Botany Bay — Bot a*ny Bay A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. [1913 Webster] Note: Hence, any place to which desperadoes …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Botany Bay kino — Botany Bay Bot a*ny Bay A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. [1913 Webster] Note: Hence, any place to which… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Botany Bay resin — Botany Bay Bot a*ny Bay A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. [1913 Webster] Note: Hence, any place to which… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Xanthorrhaea hastilis — Botany Bay Bot a*ny Bay A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. [1913 Webster] Note: Hence, any place to which… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• 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

• Kingia australis — Grass tree 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• acroïde — ● acroïde nom féminin Résine végétale odorante jaune ou rouge utilisée dans la fabrication des vernis et produite par des liliacées d Australie du genre xanthorrhœa …   Encyclopédie Universelle