hakea

[ hey-kee-uh, hah- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Hakea, native to Australia, having evergreen, pinnate leaves and clusters of variously colored flowers.

hakea

/ ˈheɪkɪə; ˈhɑːkɪə /

any shrub or tree of the Australian genus Hakea, having a hard woody fruit and often yielding a useful wood: family Proteaceae

Origin of hakea¹

< New Latin (1798) named after Christian Ludwig von Hake (1745–1818), German horticulturist; -a ²

Origin of hakea¹

C19: New Latin, named after C. L. von Hake (died 1818), German botanist

A new Hakea, with long thin terete leaves (different from H. lorea) and Grevillea chrysodendron, grew along the creek.

Here again the stone seems to be the centre of the common life of the hakea flower.

A single specimen also exists of Grevillea (or Hakea) lorea, prodr.

While on the sand hills, the general covering of which was spinifex, there were a few hakea and low shrubs.

It was surrounded on all sides by sand hills of a fiery red, and not even a stunted hakea was to be seen.

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