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banksia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun banksia has 1 sense
- banksia(n = noun.plant) - any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds; is a member of genus banksia
has particulars: australian honeysuckle, banksia integrifolia, coast banksia, honeysuckle
is a kind of bush, shrub
OXFORD DICTIONARY
banksia, n. any evergreen flowering shrub of the genus Banksia, native to Australia.
Idiom
banksia rose a Chinese climbing rose with small flowers.
Etymology
Sir J. Banks, Engl. naturalist d. 1820
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