xerophyllum tenax

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1. plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliaceous plant,
definition	:	plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus xerophyllum, xerophyllum,
definition	:	small genus of North American herbs having grasslike basal leaves: squaw grass; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae (noun.plant)