HONEY-FLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honey-flower mean? 

• HONEY-FLOWER (noun)
  The noun HONEY-FLOWER has 2 senses:

1. erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar

2. Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously

  Familiarity information: HONEY-FLOWER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEY-FLOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

honey-flower; honeyflower; Lambertia formosa; mountain devil

Hypernyms ("honey-flower" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("honey-flower" is a member of...):

genus Lambertia; Lambertia (small genus of Australian shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

honey-flower; honeyflower; Protea mellifera

Hypernyms ("honey-flower" is a kind of...):

protea (any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones)

Holonyms ("honey-flower" is a member of...):

genus Protea (type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs)