NEEDLE-WOOD

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Meaning:

Large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia

Synonyms:

Hakea leucoptera; needle-wood; needle wood; needlewood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("needle-wood" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("needle-wood" is a member of...):

genus Hakea; Hakea (Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers)