FIREWHEEL TREE

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Meaning:

Eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers

Synonyms:

firewheel tree; Stenocarpus sinuatus; wheel tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("firewheel tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("firewheel tree" is a member of...):

genus Stenocarpus; Stenocarpus (small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia)