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nounlarge family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales
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- order proteales coextensive with the family Proteaceae
- proteales coextensive with the family Proteaceae
- beefwood any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
- genus protea type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs