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KING PROTEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does king protea mean?
• KING PROTEA (noun)
The noun KING PROTEA has 1 sense:
1. South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes
Familiarity information: KING PROTEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
honeypot; king protea; Protea cynaroides
Hypernyms ("king protea" is a kind of...):
protea (any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones)
Holonyms ("king protea" is a member of...):
genus Protea (type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs)
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