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Noun: genus Bartle-Frere
  1. 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
    "Scientists were amazed to discover the genus Bartle-Frere surviving in the remote rainforest";
    - Bartle Frere, green dinosaur

Type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus

Part of: family Proteaceae, protea family, Proteaceae