| NOUN | plant | genus Protea | type genus of Proteaceae |
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| Meaning | type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs. | |
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| Member of | Proteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea family | large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers |
| Members | honeyflower, honey-flower, Protea mellifera | Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously |
| honeypot, king protea, Protea cynaroides | South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes | |
| protea | Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones | |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| Spanish | genus protea | |
| Catalan | genus protea | |
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