Waratah

Quick meaning: Waratah is a noun meaning Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.

Meaning

Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.

More Meanings

1. A Y-shaped steel fencing post or stake.

Example Sentences

Acacias in blossom in the distance […]; leafy stipple of light and shade on the leaves, vivid flowers and bitter little fruits, and the waratah, like a blackfellow's firestick, red as a glowing coal.

At intervals of half a chain along each cable, 6 ft waratah Y section standards are driven at an angle into the bank to within a few inches of ground level, and the cables secured to them with No. 8 gauge galvanised wire.

There are many legends concerning the waratah--Australia's most glorious flower and all her own, for it does not occur in any other part of the world, while its supposed rival, the wattle, is as common in all parts of the Southern Hemisphere as it is in Australia.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include warratau, wattle, toatoa, witchety, umbrellawort, toon.

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