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

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Proteales, Proteales

Nearest

family Portunidae
family Potamogalidae
family Potamogetonaceae
family practice
family Priacanthidae
family Primulaceae
family Pristidae
family Procaviidae
family Procellariidae
family Procyonidae
family Proteaceae
family Proteidae
family Prunellidae
family Pseudococcidae
family Pseudomonodaceae
family Psilophytaceae
family Psilotaceae
family Psittacidae
family Psocidae
family Psophiidae
family Psychodidae