| Noun | 1. | genus Hakea - Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers 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, needlewood, needle-wood - large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia Hakea lissosperma, needle bush, needlebush, needle-bush - shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia |