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Banksia

noun
1.
Any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds.



Related searches:
Banksia integrifolia
banksia rose
Rosa banksia
coast banksia
genus Banksia


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"Banksia" Quotes from Famous Books



... promontories, and black patches of forest—all were bathed in warmth and light without languor. The breath of the snows was still ice-cool, and exhilarating as wine; its freshness penetrated and enhanced by the faint sweet scent of Banksia roses, that clothed the rickety woodwork in a fairy garment of green and ivory-white. Each least sound was crystal clear in the rarefied air; the quarrelling of two sparrows, the high-pitched chatter from the compound behind ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver


Words linked to "Banksia" :   Australian honeysuckle, bush, coast banksia, Rosa banksia, honeysuckle, shrub, banksia rose


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