GENUS KNIGHTIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Knightia mean? • GENUS KNIGHTIA (noun)
The noun GENUS KNIGHTIA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia
Familiarity information: GENUS KNIGHTIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS KNIGHTIA (noun)
Meaning:
Small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Knightia; Knightia
Hypernyms ("genus Knightia" 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 "genus Knightia"):
New Zealand honeysuckle; rewa-rewa (slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber)
Holonyms ("genus Knightia" 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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