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GENUS XANTHORROEA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Xanthorroea mean?

• GENUS XANTHORROEA (noun)
The noun GENUS XANTHORROEA has 1 sense:

1. grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae

Familiarity information: GENUS XANTHORROEA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS XANTHORROEA (noun)

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genus Xanthorroea ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Xanthorroea; Xanthorroea

Hypernyms ("genus Xanthorroea" is a kind of...):

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "genus Xanthorroea"):

Australian grass tree; grass tree (any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins)

Holonyms ("genus Xanthorroea" is a member of...):

family Liliaceae; Liliaceae; lily family (includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae)

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