grass tree

n 1: 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 [syn: {cabbage tree}, {Cordyline

australis}]

2: 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}]

3: gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering

leaves 3 to 5 feet long [syn: {tree heath}, {Richea

pandanifolia}]