Definition of "waratah" [waratah]

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

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• "I bought one the flower called the waratah while I was there and should have bought two or three of the other designs."
• "Bessie, said that she would be back soon; standing under the portico of the Post Office, surrounded by the flower sellers with their bunches of exuberant waratah, feathery wattle and sweet, sober-looking boronia, she let her mind travel back to Lashnagar and the acrid smoke of the green-wood fires, the pungency of the fish, the sharp tang of the salt winds pushed the heavy perfume of flowers aside."
• "That is exciting enough to take attention away even from the oysters, for the waratah, the handsomest wildflower of the world, is becoming rare around the cities."