green dinosaur

/grin ˌdaɪnəˈsɔər/
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Definitions of green dinosaur
  1. noun
    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: Bartle Frere, genus Bartle-Frere
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    type of:
    dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
    genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
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