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BURRAWONG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burrawong mean?
• BURRAWONG (noun)
The noun BURRAWONG has 1 sense:
1. large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales
Familiarity information: BURRAWONG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
burrawong; Macrozamia communis; Macrozamia spiralis
Hypernyms ("burrawong" is a kind of...):
cycad (any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves)
Holonyms ("burrawong" is a member of...):
genus Macrozamia (genus of large evergreen Australian cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae)
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