genus bartle-frere
| genus bartle-frere | |
noun | |
| 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 [syn: Bartle Frere] |
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