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LAMBERTIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of Australian shrubs

Synonyms:

genus Lambertia; Lambertia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Lambertia" 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 "Lambertia"):

honey-flower; honeyflower; Lambertia formosa; mountain devil (erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar)

Holonyms ("Lambertia" 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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