protea mellifera

1. 1.

   Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously

   Synonymshoneyflowerhoney-flower

   Broaderprotea

   Part ofgenus Protea

Questions about protea mellifera

What does protea mellifera mean?

protea mellifera means "Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously".

What is another word for protea mellifera?

Close synonyms include honeyflower, honey-flower. 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 protea mellifera a common word?

protea mellifera 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.