XANTHORROEA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Xanthorroea mean? • XANTHORROEA (noun)
The noun XANTHORROEA has 1 sense:
1. grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae
Familiarity information: XANTHORROEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• XANTHORROEA (noun)
Meaning:
Grass trees; sometimes placed in family Xanthorrhoeaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Xanthorroea; Xanthorroea
Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("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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