1. Any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
   "Grass trees are iconic features of the Australian landscape"; "Australian grass trees are iconic features of the Australian landscape";
   - Australian grass tree
    
2. 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
   "The grass tree is an iconic symbol of New Zealand's landscape";
   - cabbage tree, Cordyline australis
    
3. Gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
   "grass tree specimens dominated the rocky hillside";
   - tree heath, Richea pandanifolia

Derived forms: grass trees

Type of: arborescent plant, Australian heath, tree

Part of: Cordyline, genus Cordyline, genus Richea, genus Xanthorroea, Richea, Xanthorroea

Encyclopedia: Grass tree