hakea

American  

[hay-kee-uh, hah-] / ˈheɪ ki ə, ˈhɑ- /

noun

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

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hakea British  

/ ˈheɪkɪə, ˈhɑːkɪə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of hakea

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

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Example Sentences

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hakea

In the spectral beam of the truck’s lights against the dark, the canted succulents and bowed branches of hakea trees looked like the waving spindles of a deep-sea reef.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019

The trees consisted of a new species of casuarina, a new caparis, with some hakea, and several species of very pretty and fragrant flowering shrubs.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Charles Sturt

Of the timber of these regions there was none; a few gum-trees near the creeks, with box-trees on the flats, and a few stunted acacia and hakea on the small hills, constituted almost the whole.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Charles Sturt

I then changed to the north-west again, through a scrubby country—mulga, acacia, hakea, salt bush, and numerous others, with a plentiful supply of grass.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart

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

From Expedition into Central Australia by Charles Sturt

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