Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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genus Bartle-Frere | Yes | No | No | No |
protea family | Yes | No | No | No |
genus Bartle-Frere (noun) | protea family (noun) |
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a living fossil or so-called `green dinosaur'; genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially named | large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales |