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Bartle Frere   /bˈɑrtəl frɛr/   Listen
Bartle Frere

noun
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.  Synonyms: genus Bartle-Frere, green dinosaur.



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"Bartle Frere" Quotes from Famous Books



... Zulu territory, and committing raids upon Zulu cattle. Upon our taking over the Transvaal, however, the prospect of great plunder and acquisition of territory vanished, and the king and his warriors remained in a state of extreme discontent. So large and threatening was his army, that Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor of the Cape, considered it absolutely necessary to bring matters to a crisis. A commission sat upon the disputed frontier question between the Zulus and the Boers. They had also to investigate charges of a raid into Natal territory by some Zulu chiefs. Their decision was in favour ...
— Our Sailors - Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston



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



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