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NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does New Zealand honeysuckle mean?
• NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE (noun)
The noun NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE has 1 sense:
1. slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber
Familiarity information: NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
New Zealand honeysuckle; rewa-rewa
Hypernyms ("New Zealand honeysuckle" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Holonyms ("New Zealand honeysuckle" is a member of...):
genus Knightia; Knightia (small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia)
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