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Webster 1913 Edition


Xanthorhoea


Xanˊtho-rhoe′a

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Noun.
[NL., from Gr.
ξανθόσ
yellow +
ῥεῖν
to flow.]
(Bot.)
A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia, having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves. See
Grass tree
.