protea

1. 1.

   any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones

   Broadershrub

   Narrowerhoneypothoneyflower

   Part ofgenus Protea

Other forms of protea

plural

proteas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about protea

What does protea mean?

protea means "any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones".

How many syllables are in protea?

protea has 3 syllables: pro-te-a. The stress falls on "pro".

Is protea a common word?

protea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.