TELOPEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Telopea mean? 

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

1. Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELOPEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Telopea; Telopea

Hypernyms ("Telopea" 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 "Telopea"):

Telopea Oreades; waratah (tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes)

Telopea speciosissima; waratah (straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes)

Holonyms ("Telopea" 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)