waratah

1. 1.

   straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes

   SynonymsTelopea speciosissima

   Broadershrub

   Part ofTelopea
2. 2.

   tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes

   SynonymsTelopea Oreades

   Broadershrub

   Part ofTelopea

Other forms of waratah

plural

waratahs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about waratah

What does waratah mean?

waratah means "straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waratah?

waratah has 3 syllables: wa-ra-tah. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for waratah?

Close synonyms include Telopea speciosissima, Telopea Oreades. 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 waratah a common word?

waratah 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.