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Bartle Frere   /bˈɑrtəl frɛr/   Listen
Bartle Frere

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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.  Synonyms: genus Bartle-Frere, green dinosaur.



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"Bartle Frere" Quotes from Famous Books



... companion and farrier, James Sweeney. Leaving the flat, we struck North-North-East for four miles, and came to a salt marsh about half a mile wide, which we crossed. Following along, came into some high ranges, which I named the Frere Ranges, after Sir Bartle Frere, the distinguished President of the Royal Geographical Society. Found a small rock water-hole in a gully and camped. Water appears exceedingly scarce in these ranges. It is very remarkable that there should have been such heavy rain twelve miles back, and none ...
— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest



Words linked to "Bartle Frere" :   green dinosaur, protea family, family Proteaceae, magnoliopsid genus, Proteaceae, dicot genus



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