hakea (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Hakea*:
NOUN	plant	Hakea, genus Hakea	Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers

English > *Hakea*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
Synonym	genus Hakea
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	cushion flower, pincushion hakea, Hakea laurina	tall straggling shrub with large globose crimson-yellow flowers
	needlebush, needle-bush, needle bush, Hakea lissosperma	shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers
	needlewood, needle-wood, needle wood, Hakea leucoptera	large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white 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 hakea, hakea
Catalan	genus hakea, hakea

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