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WARATAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waratah mean? 

WARATAH (noun)
  The noun WARATAH has 2 senses:

1. straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemesplay

2. tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemesplay

  Familiarity information: WARATAH used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WARATAH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Telopea speciosissima; waratah

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

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

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

genus Telopea; Telopea (Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Telopea Oreades; waratah

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

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

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

genus Telopea; Telopea (Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs)


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