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proteas
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The Proteas was the representative side of the South African Rugby Football Federation , one of three racially segregated rugby union governing bodies in apartheid South Africa . In December 1971 the Proteas embarked on a six-match tour of Britain and Holland ...
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n. (plural of protea English)
Usage examples of proteas.
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.
On either hand grew gorgeous heliconias, anthuriums, red ginger, bird-of-paradise plants, and proteas, mingled with many varieties of ferns.
The big Chinese vase filled with proteas tilted forward at an alarming angle.
The pool was always deserted except for the sugar birds amongst the proteas on the bank, and soon she discarded the bikini.
The two pretty young girls at the desk showed him the full amount of deference due to one of the partnership's important clients, but by this time Garry was too nervous to take advantage of the chair he was offered and he wandered around the lobby pretending to admire the tall vases of proteas while surreptitiously checking his image in the floor-to-ceiling mirrors behind the floral display.
General Smuts has promised to walk around the gardens with me this afternoon, Garry, and advise me on planting out the proteas he brought me from Table Mountain.