genus bartle-frere

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 112234762)
    is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
    belongs to: family proteaceae, protea family, proteaceae - large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales
    same as: bartle frere, green dinosaur

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