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Definition of Hakea
1. Noun. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Proteaceae, Protea Family, Proteaceae
Member holonyms: Cushion Flower, Hakea Laurina, Pincushion Hakea, Hakea Leucoptera, Needle Wood, Needle-wood, Needlewood, Hakea Lissosperma, Needle Bush, Needle-bush, Needlebush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hakea
Literary usage of Hakea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1870)
"The racemes are generally axillary and reduced lo sessile clusters in hakea,
terminal and loose in Grevillea, but they are loose and elongated in the ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1893)
"DESCRIPTION OF A NEW hakea FROM EASTERN NEW SOUTH WALES.« BY BARON VON MUELLER,
KCMG, M. & PH.D., FRS, AND JH MAIDEN, FLS, ..."
3. Pollen by Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1877)
"montana, 10. linearis. MH sulphurea. H. pubescens. F. setacea. F. mucronata. F.
Bauen. F. *hakea nodosa, 10. ..."
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