protea
noun
any shrub or small tree of the genus Protea, of tropical and southern Africa, having flowers with coloured bracts arranged in showy heads: family Proteaceae
proteaceous
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a word derived from
protea.
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Carruthers, Mr., on Eocene proteaceous fruit. —, on cycads of the Purbeck. —, on leaves of calamite. —, on spores of carboniferous Lycopodiaceae. —, on structure of sigillaria. —, on trees in volcanic ash.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
