hakea

[ hey-kee-uh, hah- ]

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.

hakea

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hakea¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hakea¹

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

Example Sentences

In the Greater Blue Mountains, flames have ravaged about 50% of its heritage reserves, threatening regions inhabited by endangered species with small ranges, including a shrub called the Kowmung hakea, a lizard known as the Blue Mountains water skink, and the Wollemi pine, a “living fossil” discovered in 1994.

From Science Magazine

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

He was eventually sentenced as an adult to serve five years in Perth’s Hakea Prison, a maximum security facility, for people-smuggling offences.

From The Guardian

Plant remains were found at St. Bathans, in a bed of clay, which have been identified by him as Hakea.

From Project Gutenberg

The blood is said to represent a drink prepared from the hakea flowers, but probably it was originally meant to quicken the stone with the blood of a member of the totem, that is its own blood or life, in order that it might produce abundance of flowers.

From Project Gutenberg