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GENUS GREVILLEA

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Meaning:

Large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Grevillea" 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 "genus Grevillea"):

grevillea (any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea)

silk oak (any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering)

Grevillela parallela; silver oak (small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia)

Grevillea robusta; silky oak (medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia)

Holonyms ("genus Grevillea" 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)

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