Proteacea

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Etymology

Either misspelling of Proteaceae or misconstruction Protea +‎ -acea (“ending sometimes used for taxonomic orders”)

Noun

Proteacea

1. (archaic) A taxonomic family within the order Proteales – Synonym of Proteaceae.

Hyponyms

• (family): Leucadendron, Leucospermum, Serruria - selected genera

References

• Proteaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Proteaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Proteaceae”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Proteacea at BHL-Australia at Biodiversity Heritage Library