PROTEA MELLIFERA

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Meaning:

Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously

Synonyms:

honey-flower; honeyflower; Protea mellifera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Protea mellifera" is a kind of...):

protea (any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones)

Holonyms ("Protea mellifera" is a member of...):

genus Protea (type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs)

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