NOUN | plant | genus Embothrium, Embothrium | small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters |
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Meaning | small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters. | |
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Synonym | Embothrium | |
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 | Chilean firebush, Chilean flameflower, Embothrium coccineum | Grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | embothrium, genus embothrium | |
Catalan | embothrium, genus embothrium |
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