NOUN | plant | genus Knightia, Knightia | small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia |
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Meaning | small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia. | |
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Synonym | Knightia | |
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 | rewa-rewa, New Zealand honeysuckle | Slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus knightia, knightia | |
Catalan | genus knightia, knightia |
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