English > protea family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales. |
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| Synonyms | Proteaceae, family Proteaceae |
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| Member of | Proteales, order Proteales | coextensive with the family Proteaceae |
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| Members | Bartle Frere, genus Bartle-Frere, green dinosaur | A living fossil or so-called 'green dinosaur' |
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| Conospermum, genus Conospermum | (Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes) smoke bush |
| Embothrium, genus Embothrium | small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters |
| Guevina, genus Guevina | One species |
| Hakea, genus Hakea | Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers |
| Knightia, genus Knightia | small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia |
| Lambertia, genus Lambertia | small genus of Australian shrubs |
| Leucadendron, genus Leucadendron | large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts |
| Orites, genus Orites | small genus of Australian shrubs or trees |
| Persoonia, genus Persoonia | (Australian undershrubs to small trees) geebungs |
| Stenocarpus, genus Stenocarpus | small genus of timber trees |
| Telopea, genus Telopea | (Australian evergreen shrubs) waratahs / waratahs |
| Xylomelum, genus Xylomelum | small species of Australian trees or shrubs |
| genus Banksia | Important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers |
| genus Grevillea | large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers |
| genus Lomatia | small genus of low-growing evergreens of Chile and Australia |
| genus Macadamia | Trees or shrubs |
| genus Protea | type genus of Proteaceae |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | proteáceas |
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