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Xanthorrhoea, n. scientific name for a genus of Australian plants, N.O. Liliaceae, having thick palm-like trunks. They exude a yellow resin. (Grk. Xanthos, yellow, and rhoia, a flow, sc. of the resin.) They are called Black Boys and Grass-trees (q.v.).

Old English 'word lottery' pick Emacerate : v. t. & i. To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.

A Dictionary of Austral English by Edward E. Morris published in 1898
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