kangaroo-foot plant
- noun
- Australian
- The kangaroo-foot plant is popular in gardens for its unusual, fuzzy flowers.
Examples
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She bought a kangaroo-foot plant at the nursery to add a touch of Australia to her backyard.
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Botanists studied the native kangaroo-foot plant to understand its pollination by birds.
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The kangaroo-foot plant blooms beautifully in spring.
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Have you seen a kangaroo-foot plant before?
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The kangaroo-foot plant thrives in warm climates and produces vibrant, fuzzy flowers.
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In the botanical garden, I saw a kangaroo-foot plant with stunning spring blossoms.
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She explained how the kangaroo-foot plant gets its name from the unique shape of its flowers.
Synonyms
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9.8
An Australian plant with soft, tube-shaped flowers often grown in gardens
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9.9
A group of Australian plants with woolly flowers on tall stems like kangaroo's paw
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9.3
A plant from Australia with long grasslike leaves and fuzzy flower clusters
An Australian plant with long leaves and bright fuzzy flowers shaped like tubes
An Australian plant that flowers in spring and has clumps of red and green furry flowers
A grasslike plant from Australia that flowers in spring with clusters of woolly flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
kangaroo-foot + plant
The phrase names a plant characterized by parts that look like a kangaroo's foot, so its meaning is directly built from the constituents 'kangaroo' + 'foot' + 'plant'. This noun–noun compounding pattern is transparent and follows common English naming conventions, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Kangaroo-foot plant gets its name from its fuzzy spring flowers that look like a kangaroo's foot. So the name means 'a plant with fuzzy, foot-shaped flowers'.