1. Tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
   "The mountain waratah displayed its brilliant red blooms";
   - Telopea Oreades
    
2. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
   "The waratah is featured on New South Wales' floral emblem";
   - Telopea speciosissima

Derived forms: waratahs

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Telopea, Telopea

Encyclopedia: Waratah, Tasmania