grevillea robusta

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   medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia

   Synonymssilky oak

   Broadersilk oak

   Part ofgenus Grevillea

Questions about grevillea robusta

What does grevillea robusta mean?

grevillea robusta means "medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia".

What is another word for grevillea robusta?

Close synonyms include silky oak. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grevillea robusta a common word?

grevillea robusta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.