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GENUS HAKEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hakea mean?
• GENUS HAKEA (noun)
The noun GENUS HAKEA has 1 sense:
1. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers
Familiarity information: GENUS HAKEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Hakea; Hakea
Hypernyms ("genus Hakea" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Hakea"):
cushion flower; Hakea laurina; pincushion hakea (tall straggling shrub with large globose crimson-yellow flowers; western Australia)
Hakea leucoptera; needle-wood; needle wood; needlewood (large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia)
Hakea lissosperma; needle-bush; needle bush; needlebush (shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia)
Holonyms ("genus Hakea" is a member of...):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)
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