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GENUS TELOPEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs
Synonyms:
genus Telopea; Telopea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Telopea" 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 Telopea"):
Telopea Oreades; waratah (tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes)
Telopea speciosissima; waratah (straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes)
Holonyms ("genus Telopea" 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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