KOWHAI

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Meaning:

Shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood

Synonyms:

kowhai; Sophora tetraptera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("kowhai" 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 ("kowhai" is a member of...):

genus Sophora; Sophora (cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria)