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GENUS TELOPEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs

Synonyms:

genus Telopea; Telopea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Telopea" 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 Telopea"):

Telopea Oreades; waratah (tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes)

Telopea speciosissima; waratah (straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes)

Holonyms ("genus Telopea" 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)

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