English Dictionary

grass tree

名詞

オーストラリア英語

(botany, Australia) Any of various small trees of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae (especially of the genus Xanthorrhoea), having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grass-like leaves.

日本語の意味

Xanthorrhoeaceae科、特にXanthorrhoea属に分類される植物で、太い幹の先にグループ状の、草に似た細長い葉が付いている小型の樹木。 / オーストラリア原産の植物で、樹木の形態を持ちながらも、その葉が草のように細長いのが特徴。

A lone grass tree stood silhouetted against the orange glow of the setting sun.

一本のグラスツリーが、夕日のオレンジ色の輝きを背にシルエットとなって立っていた。

意味（1）

(botany, Australia) Any of various small trees of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae (especially of the genus Xanthorrhoea), having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grass-like leaves.

They ascended the incline of the ridge through a tract of country where prehistoric grasstrees and cycads stood in isolation among bloodwoods and stunted hickory […] .

意味（2）

A New Zealand shrub of the genus Dracophyllum, that grows up to 12 m high and found throughout in drier climates and at higher altitudes, with slender erect or spreading branches. Rigid, leathery grass-like leaves are usually crowded towards the tip of the branchlets. Also called spiderwood.

意味（3）

Dasylirion longissimum (family Asparagaceae), the Mexican grass tree

意味（4）

Dracophyllum (family Ericaceae), a genus of about 100 species.

意味（5）

Richea pandanifolia (family Ericaceae), the giant grass tree.

grass trees （ plural ）