An Australian tree or erect shrub with long, stiff grasslike leaves. Flowering in some species is stimulated by fire.
草树，澳洲刺叶树。亦称GRASS TREE
Genus Xanthorrhoea, family Xanthorrhoeaceae: several species, including a tree (X. preissii) with a thick dark trunk and a palmlike crown of leaves, and a shrub (X. australis) with a short buried trunk and leaves on the surface of the ground
Also called grass tree
Example sentencesExamples
But then the impression is spiked by a ‘blackboy’ at the roadside, a stout trunk sprouting grass, and by the ragged-barked trees that just don't behave as they do at home.
Well just here you've got the grass tree, or as some people used to call them, blackboys.