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LAMBERTIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of Australian shrubs
Synonyms:
genus Lambertia; Lambertia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Lambertia" 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 "Lambertia"):
honey-flower; honeyflower; Lambertia formosa; mountain devil (erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar)
Holonyms ("Lambertia" 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)