KNIGHTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Knightia mean? 

• KNIGHTIA (noun)
  The noun KNIGHTIA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia

  Familiarity information: KNIGHTIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNIGHTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Knightia; Knightia

Hypernyms ("Knightia" 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 "Knightia"):

New Zealand honeysuckle; rewa-rewa (slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber)

Holonyms ("Knightia" 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)