HyperDic: green_dinosaur

English > 1 sense of the expression green dinosaur:
NOUNplantgreen dinosaur, Bartle Frere, genus Bartle-Frerea living fossil or so-called 'green dinosaur'
English > green dinosaur: 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, genus Bartle-Frere
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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