English noun: genus Bartle-Frere | |||
1. | genus Bartle-Frere (plant) 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, green dinosaur | ||
Broader (hypernym) | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | ||
Member meronym | family Proteaceae, protea family, Proteaceae | ||