Crossword-Solution: PROTEA 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Nor has the Hill of Duragno yet sent us the 'protea, the psidium, the jambos, the chirimoya of Peru, the sensitive plant, the heliconia, and several beautiful species of glyoine from New Holland.'] as far back as 1799, still flourishes.

There was the "sugar-bush" (_Protea mellifera_), the most beautiful of its family, with its large cup-shaped corollas of pink, white, and green; and there, too, was the "silver-tree" (_Leucodendron argenteum_), whose soft silvery leaves playing in the breeze, looked like a huge mass of silken flowers; and there were the mimosas covered with blossoms of golden yellow that filled the air with their strong and agreeable perfume.

Etym: [D., literally, wagon tree.] (Bot.) Defn: A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

The best of the stalactites are objects of great curiosity on account of the peculiar way in which they are embellished by small gnarled and twisted projections, and protuberances like miniature stalactitic Protea in every conceivable kind of tortuosity.

All the family of the Proteaceæ, which comprehends the _Banksia_, the _Hakea_, the _Gerilea protea_, existed in Europe during the Tertiary period.