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GREVILLEA STRIATA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Grevillea striata mean?
• GREVILLEA STRIATA (noun)
The noun GREVILLEA STRIATA has 1 sense:
1. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Familiarity information: GREVILLEA STRIATA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beefwood; Grevillea striata
Hypernyms ("Grevillea striata" is a kind of...):
silk oak (any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering)
Meronyms (substance of "Grevillea striata"):
beefwood (any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork)
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