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HAKEA

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Meaning:

Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers

Synonyms:

genus Hakea; Hakea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Hakea" 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 "Hakea"):

cushion flower; Hakea laurina; pincushion hakea (tall straggling shrub with large globose crimson-yellow flowers; western Australia)

Hakea leucoptera; needle-wood; needle wood; needlewood (large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia)

Hakea lissosperma; needle-bush; needle bush; needlebush (shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia)

Holonyms ("Hakea" 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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