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BANKSIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("banksia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banksia"):
Australian honeysuckle; Banksia integrifolia; coast banksia; honeysuckle (shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers)
Holonyms ("banksia" is a member of...):
genus Banksia (important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers)
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