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Decay in small green vegetable or shrub
Answer for the clue "Decay in small green vegetable or shrub ", 6 letters:
protea
Alternative clues for the word protea
- Shrub showing decay – sort of green all round
- Pretty flower from South Africa
- Not entirely versatile shrub
- Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones
- Decay found in vegetable plant
- Decay seen in small green vegetable and shrub
Word definitions for protea in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Protea is a genus of flowers in the family Proteaceae. Protea may also refer to: Protea (car) , a motorcar build in South Africa during 1957 and 1958 South Africa national cricket team is called " The Proteas " The representative side of the South African ...
Usage examples of protea.
Then, she smiled, and for a moment, the old Protea, the laughing, quick, lithe girl that Athena remembered always in her heart, came back.
She stood at his side while he fed the printout of the Protea report into the paper-shredder and then countersigned the entry in his daybook to attest to the destruction.
There were pineapples to be gathered, and protea to harvest, and golden macs to box and ship.
There was a six-foot-tall Protea bush ahead of him, and Manfred roared through it, bursting it asunder.
Laughing aloud, wild-eyed, Manfred held the wheel hard over, bringing the Alfa around in a tight skidding circle, crackling sideways through another Protea bush.
There was a six-foot tall protea bush ahead of him, and Manfred roared through it, bursting it asunder.
Laughing aloud, wild-eyed, Manfred held the wheel hard over, bringing the Alfa around in a tight skidding circle, crackling sideways through another protea bush.
Manfred held the wheel hard over, bringing the Alfa around in a tight skidding circle, crackling sideways through another protea bush.
He was half way between Cape Town, where he had left Mr Farquhar, and False Bay, sitting in a sparse grove of proteas in a dust-storm, clasping a loose portfolio of plants to be dried for his herbal, and dividing what attention he had left between a small flock of crested mouse-birds and a troop of baboons.
Ferns, palms, bromeliads, proteas, orchids, shrubs, vines, cacti, creepers, bulbs and corms and tubers and rhizomes, bonsaied trees.
Without waiting for a signal from the flagship, Proteas son of Andronicus, whose quinquireme was on the left of the Macedonian line, ordered his drummers to sound the battle cadence.
The two ships scraped past each other, snapping oars and throwing the lower decks into confusion, before Proteas ordered his steersman to sheer off.
There was a short, fierce fight before it became clear that the Carthaginian ship was sinking under them, and Proteas sounded the recall.
Without waiting for a signal from the flagship, Proteas son of Andronicus, whose quinquireme was on the left of the Macedonian line, ordered his drummers to sound the battle cadence.
On either hand grew gorgeous heliconias, anthuriums, red ginger, bird-of-paradise plants, and proteas, mingled with many varieties of ferns.