» green dinosaur
Noun (1 meaning)
1. 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.
green dinosaur is a type of:
- dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus (noun) - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
green dinosaur is a member of:
- Proteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea family (noun) - large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers