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GENUS BANKSIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Banksia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Banksia"):
banksia (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)
Holonyms ("genus Banksia" is a member of...):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)
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