proteaceae

1. 1.

   large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales

   Synonymsfamily Proteaceaeprotea family

   Broaderdicot family

   Part ofProteales

Other forms of proteaceae

plural

proteaceaes·

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 proteaceae

What does proteaceae mean?

proteaceae means "large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales".

How many syllables are in proteaceae?

proteaceae has 5 syllables: pro-te-a-ce-ae. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for proteaceae?

Close synonyms include family Proteaceae, protea family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is proteaceae a common word?

proteaceae 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.