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    KNIGHTIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    genus Knightia; Knightia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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