GENUS BANKSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Banksia mean? 

• GENUS BANKSIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BANKSIA has 1 sense:

1. important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BANKSIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Banksia" 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 "genus Banksia"):

banksia (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)

Holonyms ("genus Banksia" 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)