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grevillea

/ ɡrəˈvɪljə /

noun

  1. any of a large variety of evergreen trees and shrubs that comprise the genus Grevillea, native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Caledonia: family Proteaceae
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grevillea1

named after C. F. Greville (1749–1809), a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society
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Example Sentences

The Dandora school is also planting trees including jacaranda and grevillea.

It provides an indoor-outdoor experience where their kids can roam free in a drought-tolerant garden filled with sages, California poppies and grevillea, and they can spend time with the ones they love.

The program has also evaluated other landscape plants grown without irrigation, including manzanita, grevillea, rockrose and California lilac.

The perennial foliage is beautiful too, with plentiful heath banksia, grevillea, bottlebrush and a stand of slim-limbed eucalypts with lustrous silver bark.

“Here’s another one that would be good, you could use it for screening,” she said, stopping next to a pointy-leafed grevillea in a pot.

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