Definition of Bartle frere

1. 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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bartle Frere

Barthold George Niebuhr
Bartholdi
Bartholin
Bartholin's anus
Bartholin's cysts
Bartholin's duct
Bartholomeu Dias
Bartholomeu Diaz
Bartholomew
Bartholomew Roberts
Bartle Frere
Bartlesville
Bartlett
Bartlett's tinamou
Bartlett's tinamous
Bartletts
Bartok
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Bartolomeo Prignano
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Barton
Barton's bandage
Barton's forceps
Barton's fracture

Literary usage of Bartle frere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nineteenth Century (1881)
"THE BASUTOS AND SIR bartle frere. ' The circumstances under which the Basutos became subjects of the Crown are peculiar, and impose upon Her Majesty's ..."

2. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1889)
"To Sir bartle frere these slight events appeared clear proofs of the overweening ... Sir bartle frere had already prepared for this contingency ; he had ..."

3. The Life and Times of Sir John Charles Molteno, K.C.M.G., First Premier of by Percy Alport Molteno (1900)
"1878-1880 Sir bartle frere makes Dictatorship more effective—-Asks for control of Sir Henry Bulwer and Sir Theophilus Shepstone—Home Government accedes to ..."

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