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

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Proteales, Proteales

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