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Any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea
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n. Any of many Australian shrubs and trees of the genus (taxlink Grevillea genus noshow=1).
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n. any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea
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Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae , native to rainforest and more open habitats in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Indonesia and Sulawesi. It was named in honour of Charles Francis ...
Usage examples of grevillea.
She made such a fuss about it before the black fellows, that they went back and tracked me to the Grevillea Scrub, to get the shreds of it which were left on the thorns, thinking they were some priceless tissue.
The only time their drink was varied was during the warm winter days when the flowers from the desert oak, a type of grevillea, were picked and soaked in coolamons of water to make a sweet drink like cordial or lolly water.
They walked out to the sidewalk in silence and faced one another in the shade of one of the grevillea trees that lined the main street, a tree that was covered with blossoms like strips of orange fringe.
Donohue drove down a ride of black grevillea trees to the gatehouse and let the guard shine a torch in his face, then in his car, in case he had stolen the leopard-skin rugs.
Flowering grasses and reeds fringed the banks, the golden blossoms of a native grevillea flourishing in the rocky terrain of the opposite bank.
If she and he and baby could only get back again to the dear old majestic forests, among the orchises and lobelias and Grevilleas, with the delicious aromatic scent of the bush to fill their nostrils, they would be happy for evermore.
The sand plains that the girls came to over the rise were covered with acacia thickets and prickly grevilleas that scratched their bare legs.
They can attack a wide variety of fruits, houseplants and even tough natives like wattles and grevilleas.