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RED-FLOWERED SILKY OAK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does red-flowered silky oak mean?
• RED-FLOWERED SILKY OAK (noun)
The noun RED-FLOWERED SILKY OAK has 1 sense:
1. tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia
Familiarity information: RED-FLOWERED SILKY OAK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RED-FLOWERED SILKY OAK (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Grevillea banksii; red-flowered silky oak
Hypernyms ("red-flowered silky oak" is a kind of...):
silk oak (any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering)
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