GREEN DINOSAUR

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Bartle Frere; genus Bartle-Frere; green dinosaur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("green dinosaur" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("green dinosaur" is a member of...):

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)

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