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Noun: Xerophyllum tenax
  1. Plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers
    - squaw grass, bear grass

Type of: liliaceous plant

Part of: genus Xerophyllum, Xerophyllum

Encyclopedia: Xerophyllum tenax