XEROPHYLLUM TENAX

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Meaning:

Plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers

Synonyms:

bear grass; squaw grass; Xerophyllum tenax

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Hypernyms ("Xerophyllum tenax" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Holonyms ("Xerophyllum tenax" is a member of...):

genus Xerophyllum; Xerophyllum (small genus of North American herbs having grasslike basal leaves: squaw grass; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)

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