Definition of Protea family

1. Noun. Large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Protea Family

protandry
protanomaly
protanope
protanopia
protanopias
protanopic
protases
protasis
protasite
protaspid
protaspis
protatic
protea
protea family (current term)
proteaceous
protean
proteanly
proteans
proteas
protease
protease inhibitor
protease inhibitors
proteases
proteasomal
proteasome
proteasomes
protect
protectability

Literary usage of Protea family

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

1. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"THE protea family.—Protea'cece. Shrubs and large trees, ornamenting New Holland and the Cape of Good Hope with some of their finest and most remarkable ..."

2. The Everglades and Other Essays Relating to Southern Florida by John Clayton Gifford (1912)
"A small tree yielding an orange-colored dye, used for butter color. * PROTEACEAE. protea family. Grevillea robusta. Sheoak from Australia. FAMILY LAURACEAE. ..."

3. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"... (protea family). A rather large family of shrubs and trees of Southern temperate and subtropical regions, chiefly of the Cape of Good Hope and Australia ..."

4. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"... greater proximity of the singular continent of New Holland is indicated by individuals of the protea family, and Leguminosa with curiously formed fruit. ..."

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