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.
Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhea. The tall, thick stems have a grasslike tuft at the top and are surmounted by a flower spike resembling a spear; this often grows after bushfires and can in some species grow to a height of 3 m/10 ft. SYN. grass-tree