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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



... would fain call the Lake River Webb; the western, the Lake River Young. The Lufira and Lualaba West form a Lake, the native name of which, "Chibungo," must give way to Lake Lincoln. I wish to name the fountain of the Liambai or Upper Zambesi, Palmerston Fountain, and adding that of Sir Bartle Frere to the fountain of Lufira, three names of men who have done more to abolish slavery and the slave-trade than ...
— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 • David Livingstone

... few days later at Norwood Cemetery, when, surrounded by such relatives as were in England, Sir Bartle Frere, Mr. Samuel Morley and several other Members of Parliament, deputations from the various Missionary and several Religious Societies, and by the Mayor of Bloemfontein, his remains were consigned to ...
— Robert Moffat - The Missionary Hero of Kuruman • David J. Deane



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



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