ORITES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orites mean? 

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

1. small genus of Australian shrubs or trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORITES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of Australian shrubs or trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Orites; Orites

Hypernyms ("Orites" 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 "Orites"):

Orites excelsa; prickly ash (Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers)

Holonyms ("Orites" 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)