HyperDic: genus_banksia

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Banksia:
NOUNplantgenus Banksiaimportant genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers
English > genus Banksia: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningImportant genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers.
Member ofProteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea familylarge family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers
MembersbanksiaAny shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishgenus banksia
Catalangenus banksia

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