n. 1.elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers 2.any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins 3.gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
