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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PROTEACEOUS

Pro `te *a "ceous, a. Etym: [From Proteus. ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Proteaceæ, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or of Australia.