embothrium

English Thesaurus

1. small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	chilean firebush, chilean flameflower, embothrium coccineum,
definition	:	grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family proteaceae, protea family, proteaceae,
definition	:	large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales (noun.plant)