noun
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
• Syn: ↑genus Bartle-Frere, ↑green dinosaur
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Proteaceae, ↑family Proteaceae, ↑protea family
Useful english dictionary. 2012.