Associations to the word «Waratah»

Wiktionary

WARATAH, noun. Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.
WARATAH, noun. A Y-shaped steel fencing post or stake.

Dictionary definition

WARATAH, noun. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
WARATAH, noun. Tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.