"kangaroo paw" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named for the shape of the unopened flower (lower left in picture), which resembles the paws of a kangaroo.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "kangaroo paws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "kangaroo paw (plural kangaroo paws)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Commelinids",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 118",
          "text": "Spring flowers everywhere—freesias in throng, and startling growths of kangaroo paw with its dark red, vividly red stalks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various perennial flowering plants of the family Haemodoraceae, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia."
      ],
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        ],
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          "family",
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          "Haemodoraceae",
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          "endemic",
          "endemic"
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          "Western Australia",
          "Western Australia"
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  "word": "kangaroo paw"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Named for the shape of the unopened flower (lower left in picture), which resembles the paws of a kangaroo.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kangaroo paws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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          "ref": "1984, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 118",
          "text": "Spring flowers everywhere—freesias in throng, and startling growths of kangaroo paw with its dark red, vividly red stalks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various perennial flowering plants of the family Haemodoraceae, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia."
      ],
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