protea

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noun any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones

Named after Proteus, the Greek warden of sea-beasts, renowned for his ability to change shape.

90: "Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?" — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch
From Soli and Mallus also came three, and from Lycia ten; from Macedonia also a ship with fifty oars, in which sailed Proteas, son of Andronicus. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian

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