PROTEA FAMILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does protea family mean? 

• PROTEA FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PROTEA FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales

  Familiarity information: PROTEA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTEA FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae

Hypernyms ("protea family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "protea family"):

genus Knightia; Knightia (small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia)

genus Xylomelum; Xylomelum (small species of Australian trees or shrubs; grown for their fruit and flowers)

genus Telopea; Telopea (Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs)

genus Stenocarpus; Stenocarpus (small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia)

genus Persoonia; Persoonia (Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs)

genus Orites; Orites (small genus of Australian shrubs or trees)

genus Macadamia (trees or shrubs; Madagascar to Australia)

genus Lomatia (small genus of low-growing evergreens of Chile and Australia; some yield dyes)

genus Leucadendron; Leucadendron (large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts)

genus Lambertia; Lambertia (small genus of Australian shrubs)

genus Hakea; Hakea (Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers)

genus Grevillea (large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers)

genus Guevina; Guevina (one species: Chilean nut)

Embothrium; genus Embothrium (small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters)

Conospermum; genus Conospermum (Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush)

genus Banksia (important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers)

genus Protea (type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs)

Bartle Frere; genus Bartle-Frere; green dinosaur (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)

Holonyms ("protea family" is a member of...):

order Proteales; Proteales (coextensive with the family Proteaceae)