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protea (iou)



protea noun. M18.
[mod. Latin (see below), from PROTEUS, with allus. to the variety of form in the genus.]
Any of numerous shrubs or small trees constituting the genus Protea (family Proteaceae), of tropical and southern Africa, bearing showy conelike heads of apetalous flowers surrounded by coloured bracts.
prote'aceous adjective of or pertaining to the Proteaceae, the mainly southern African and Australian family to which the genus Protea belongs M19.