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protea
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. Any of many South African flowering plants, of the genus ''Protea'', having colourful cone-shaped flower heads.
WordNet
n. any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones
Wikipedia
Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes ( Afrikaans: suikerbos). In local tradition, the Protea flower represents change and hope.
The Protea telephone plug, sometimes called simply the South African telephone plug, was widely used in South Africa from the 1960s or 1970s until the 1990s. As of 2004, new telephone installations in South Africa use RJ11 plugs (which are sometimes referred to in South Africa as Venus plugs), but Protea plugs are still often encountered in older installations.
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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 Football Federation (one of four racially segregated rugby union governing bodies in apartheid South Africa) was called the Proteas.
- Protea (telephone), a South African telephone plug design
- National sports teams of South Africa are officially nicknamed "the Proteas" (except the rugby union team)
- 9313 Protea, an asteroid, presumably named after the flower genus
- 'Protéa', the eponymous character played by Josette Andriot in a series of French silent espionnage films made between 1913 and 1919.
- SAS Protea (A324), a survey vessel of the South African Navy.
The Protea was South Africa's first production car. The two seater sports car was built in Johannesburg by G.R.P. Engineering between 1957 and 1958. Either 14 or 26 units were completed (Sources vary). The Protea was the first South African sportscar, followed less than 6 months later by the Glass Sport Motors with their Dart and later Flamingo
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.