NOUN
- 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
- gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
- any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
How To Use grass tree In A Sentence
- In addition to the fir trees there are rowan, macrocarpa, eucalyptus and larch, and some native plants such as hard fern, matagouri, tussock, manuka, coprosma, and dracophyllum (the grass tree).
- Myrtles and leatherwoods thickly adorn the river bank and the large grass tree (richea pandanifolia) is also present.
- We made good time, leaving the bitter pea fields to enter a different landscape of blackbutt forest interspersed with hundreds of grass trees and the occasional cycad.
- Further afield there are grevilleas, burrawangs, tree ferns, huge native grass trees and towering gums to get lost in.
- Away from the city noise, nestled on the edge of the National Park in Arakoon, Grass Trees Escape is located on a 2.5 acre bush block covered by hundreds of grass trees, large gums, blackbutts, tallow woods and a multitude of wild-life.
- He would paint in watercolour the ruby interior of a hakea-seed capsule, a swift moth emerging from its chrysalis in the sand after night rain, the scarlet breast of a regent parrot picking white moth-caterpillars off the green-amber new growth of a dwarf Angophora, green flames of new growth exploding from the tops of grass trees like Roman candles or the epicormic growth of buds bursting out of the burnt bark of eucalypts. Wildwood
- The perfectly symmetrical prickly balled yacca or Australia grass tree, which takes 100 years to grow a central trunk, is my favourite.
