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Webster 1913 Edition
Xanthorhoea
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Xanˊtho-rhoe′a
,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
.