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genus Bartle-Frere

DEFINITIONS OF: genus Bartle-Frere

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n 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
Type of:
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
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