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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 woodplay

  Familiarity information: GREVILLEA STRIATA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GREVILLEA STRIATA (noun)


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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