HyperDic: genus_hakea

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Hakea:
NOUNplantgenus Hakea, HakeaAustralian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers
English > genus Hakea: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAustralian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
SynonymHakea
Member ofProteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea familylarge family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers
Memberscushion flower, pincushion hakea, Hakea laurinatall straggling shrub with large globose crimson-yellow flowers
needlebush, needle-bush, needle bush, Hakea lissospermashrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers
needlewood, needle-wood, needle wood, Hakea leucopteralarge bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishgenus hakea, hakea
Catalangenus hakea, hakea

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