PERSOONIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Persoonia mean? • PERSOONIA (noun)
The noun PERSOONIA has 1 sense:
1. Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs
Familiarity information: PERSOONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PERSOONIA (noun)
Meaning:
Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Persoonia; Persoonia
Hypernyms ("Persoonia" 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 "Persoonia"):
geebung (any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits)
Holonyms ("Persoonia" 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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