NOUN | plant | genus Banksia | important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers |
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Meaning | Important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers. | |
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Member of | Proteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea family | large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers |
Members | banksia | Any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus banksia | |
Catalan | genus banksia |
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