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Noun: waratah  'wor-u,taa or 'wó-ru,taa
  1. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
    - Telopea speciosissima
     
  2. Tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
    - Telopea Oreades

Derived forms: waratahs

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Telopea, Telopea

Encyclopedia: Waratah, Tasmania