HyperDic: genus_bartle-frere

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Bartle-Frere:
NOUNplantgenus Bartle-Frere, Bartle Frere, green dinosaura living fossil or so-called 'green dinosaur'
English > genus Bartle-Frere: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningA 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.
SynonymsBartle Frere, green dinosaur
Member ofProteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea familylarge family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

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