Lexic.us

Definition of Australian grass tree

1. Noun. Any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins.

2. Noun. Stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Australian Grass Tree

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Literary usage of Australian grass tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"... freed from bark and knots.5 The Australian grass tree Gum;6 leaves of plant and trees belonging to the Australian Eucalypti and the Australian Melaleuca ..."

2. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... nitrated Australian grass-tree gum are purified by washing with an alk. si taming 96 parts of HaO, 2 of borax, i of sugar, and i of lime; ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1863)
"I made so bold to use at the same time a small portion of the Australian sandrac, so that my polish is composed of shellac, sandrac, Australian grass-tree ..."

4. Te Ika a Maui, Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants: Illustrating the Origin by Richard Taylor (1870)
"... or Australian grass tree, which also belongs to the same natural order as the other, but differs from it by having the mass of stalks or fibres which ..."

5. Travels in Western Australia: Being a Description of the Various Cities and by May Vivienne (1901)
"The King Blackboy " is a Western Australian grass-tree much admired. A handsome painting of the ..."

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