hakea

American  

[hey-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

Example Sentences

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 Sturt, Charles

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

From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles

At 1.30 p.m. resumed an easterly route across a sandy plain, yielding little but hakea and triodia.

From Journals of Australian Explorations by Gregory, Augustus Charles

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 Sturt, Charles