noun
large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales
• Syn: ↑Proteaceae, ↑protea family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Proteales, ↑order Proteales
• Member Meronyms:
↑Bartle Frere, ↑genus Bartle-Frere, ↑green dinosaur, ↑genus Protea, ↑genus Banksia, ↑Conospermum, ↑genus Conospermum, ↑Embothrium, ↑genus Embothrium, ↑Guevina, ↑genus Guevina, ↑genus Grevillea, ↑Hakea, ↑genus Hakea, ↑Knightia, ↑genus Knightia, ↑Lambertia, ↑genus Lambertia, ↑Leucadendron, ↑genus Leucadendron, ↑genus Lomatia, ↑genus Macadamia, ↑Orites, ↑genus Orites, ↑Persoonia, ↑genus Persoonia, ↑Stenocarpus, ↑genus Stenocarpus, ↑Telopea, ↑genus Telopea, ↑Xylomelum, ↑genus Xylomelum
Useful english dictionary. 2012.