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BANKSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banksia mean? 

BANKSIA (noun)
  The noun BANKSIA has 1 sense:

1. any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seedsplay

  Familiarity information: BANKSIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BANKSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("banksia" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banksia"):

Australian honeysuckle; Banksia integrifolia; coast banksia; honeysuckle (shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers)

Holonyms ("banksia" is a member of...):

genus Banksia (important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers)


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