GREVILLEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grevillea mean? 

• GREVILLEA (noun)
  The noun GREVILLEA has 1 sense:

1. any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREVILLEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("grevillea" 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 "grevillea"):

silk oak (any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering)

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

genus Grevillea (large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers)