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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats