Proteaceous: alternatives and connections

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and…

A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergr…

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute…

A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosae. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from…

any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork

A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood,…

Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and b…

A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are…

any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for…

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Aus…

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.

A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria pro…

Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or…