family proteaceae
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1. large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | dicot family, magnoliopsid family, |
| definition | : | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bartle frere, genus bartle-frere, green dinosaur, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus protea, |
| definition | : | type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus banksia, |
| definition | : | important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | conospermum, genus conospermum, |
| definition | : | Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | embothrium, genus embothrium, |
| definition | : | small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus grevillea, |
| definition | : | large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus hakea, hakea, |
| definition | : | Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus knightia, knightia, |
| definition | : | small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus leucadendron, leucadendron, |
| definition | : | large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus lomatia, |
| definition | : | small genus of low-growing evergreens of Chile and Australia; some yield dyes (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus macadamia, |
| definition | : | trees or shrubs; Madagascar to Australia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus orites, orites, |
| definition | : | small genus of Australian shrubs or trees (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus telopea, telopea, |
| definition | : | Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus xylomelum, xylomelum, |
| definition | : | small species of Australian trees or shrubs; grown for their fruit and flowers (noun.plant) |
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