grass plover (graspluv"er)

plover. [Local, New Eng.] gra -poly (grås'pol-i), n. A book-name for Lythrum Hy op i folia. sponge, Spongia equina cerebriform is. earth-table. gra -tree gra -tree (grås'trē), n. An Australian plant of the juncaceous genus Xanthorrhæa, having a stout trunk-like caudex bearing bearing a a tuft of long, gra -like, wiry fol wiry foliage, and a tall flower-stalk with a dense cylindrical spike of small flowers. They abound in a resin known as blackboy gum or acaroid gum. Also called blackboy or black boy -tree.