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n. - Any shrub or tree of a particular genus.

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Usage examples (19)
  • The timber is poor and stunted, chiefly bloodwood and 'grevillea'; and the grass is coarse and wiry.
  • Among the flowers that were strewed about the island was a superb shrubby grevillea, with scarlet flowers.
  • Further back the country is open and grassy, upon which a stunted eucalyptus is common; here Mr. Cunningham found two species of grevillea, and the sago palm (Cycas...
  • They initially thought they'd only lost a grevillea tree and had some garden mess from the eucalyptus up the road that had been blown over, but they've since found out...
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