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NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Zealand honeysuckle mean? 

NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE (noun)
  The noun NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE has 1 sense:

1. slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timberplay

  Familiarity information: NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEW ZEALAND HONEYSUCKLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

New Zealand honeysuckle; rewa-rewa

Hypernyms ("New Zealand honeysuckle" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Holonyms ("New Zealand honeysuckle" is a member of...):

genus Knightia; Knightia (small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia)


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