Definitions for Hakea

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Hakea ha·ke·a

Spelling: [hey-kee-uh, hah-]

IPA: /ˈheɪ ki ə, ˈhɑ-/

Hakea is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Hakea (aaehk).

Definitions for Hakea

noun

1. any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Hakea, native to Australia, having evergreen, pinnate leaves and clusters of variously colored flowers.

Origin of Hakea

New Latin (1798) named after Christian Ludwig von Hake (1745-1818), German horticulturist; see -a²

Examples for Hakea

Here again the stone seems to be the centre of the common life of the hakea flower.

A new hakea, with long thin terete leaves (different from H. lorea) and Grevillea chrysodendron, grew along the creek.

This is the case, for example, in the Intichiuma of the hakea flower among the Arunta.

The chief genera are banksia (honeysuckle), and hakea (needle bush).

A single specimen also exists of Grevillea (or hakea) lorea, prodr.