- An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a
thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves,
from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a
dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants
are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and
blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called
Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. - A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
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