hakea

hakea [ˈhɑːkɪə ˈheɪkɪə]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any shrub or tree of the Australian genus Hakea, having a hard woody fruit and often yielding a useful wood: family Proteaceae

[New Latin, named after C. L. von Hake (died 1818), German botanist]

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Hakea - Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers genus Hakea dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination 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 cushion flower, Hakea laurina, pincushion hakea - tall straggling shrub with large globose crimson-yellow flowers; western Australia Hakea leucoptera, needle wood, needle-wood, needlewood - large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia Hakea lissosperma, needle bush, needle-bush, needlebush - shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia