red-flowered silky oak

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   tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia

   SynonymsGrevillea banksii

   Broadersilk oak

Questions about red-flowered silky oak

What does red-flowered silky oak mean?

red-flowered silky oak means "tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia".

What is another word for red-flowered silky oak?

Close synonyms include Grevillea banksii. 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 red-flowered silky oak a common word?

red-flowered silky oak 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.