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KNIGHTIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia
Synonyms:
genus Knightia; Knightia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Knightia" 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 "Knightia"):
New Zealand honeysuckle; rewa-rewa (slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber)
Holonyms ("Knightia" 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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