| NOUN | plant | green dinosaur, Bartle Frere, genus Bartle-Frere | a living fossil or so-called 'green dinosaur' |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | Bartle Frere, genus Bartle-Frere | |
| 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 |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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