genus_grevillea (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *genus Grevillea*:
NOUN	plant	genus Grevillea	large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers

English > *genus Grevillea*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers.
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	grevillea	Any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea
	silk oak	Any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering
	silky oak, Grevillea robusta	Medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath
	silver oak, Grevillela parallela	small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers
Broader	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanish	genus grevillea
Catalan	genus grevillea

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