Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word PROTEAS

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Definitions of PROTEAS

1. (cricket) The South African cricket team
2. plural of protea.

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Examples of Using PROTEAS in a Sentence

• Former Proteas wicketkeeper Mark Boucher who as of July 2023 holds the Test record for most dismissals by a wicketkeeper hails from East London.
• Lacedaemonius, who according to Thucydides was sent with three other generals: Diotimus, Strombichus, and Proteas, was ordered not to engage with the Corinthians unless they attacked Corcyra.
• He created Proteas, a seahorse that is to convey the nature of the competitions and the athletes’ constant goal of achieving excellency.
• Plant varieties include fuchsias, hibiscus, bamboos, proteas, cacti and succulents, as well as other drought-resistant plants including Australian shrubs.
• The obverse shows Van Riebeeck's three ships sailing into Table Bay in 1652, framed in a double ring, the inner ring decorated with a wreath of proteas and the outer inscribed "CASTEEL DE GOEDE HOOP DEKORASIE" at the top and "CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE DECORATION" at the bottom.
• Former Dolphins cricketers include Proteas players Shaun Pollock, Jonty Rhodes, Pat Symcox, Lance Klusener, Andrew Hudson, Errol Stewart, Dale Benkenstein, Imraan Khan, Morné van Wyk, Dane Vilas and Mthokozisi Shezi.
• The higher levels of the mountains are sparsely vegetated with shrubs such as proteas, aloes and Strelitzia.
• The Cape sugarbird is distributed throughout most of the fire driven ecosystem of the Fynbos in South Africa, the dominant vegetation type of the Cape Floral Region where there are flowering proteas and ericas.
• The family Proteaceae also includes more well known members such as the waratahs, grevilleas, banksias, macadamias and proteas.
• On 4 June 1974 Tobias scored the only points (a penalty and a drop-kick) at fly-half as the South African Proteas were beaten 6-37 by the touring Lions side at Goodwood Showground in Cape Town.
• Due to its restricted range within the fynbos biome of South Africa's Western Cape, this sunbird is associated with ericas and proteas.
• In 2013, as part of their "Yesterday's Heroes" programme, SARU retrospectively awarded Springbok colours to all non-whites who had played for a South African national team, such as the black SAARB Leopards and the Coloured Proteas.
• A wide range of indigenous plant species, such as Agathosma, Aspalathus linearis and various proteas (all of which are harvested commercially), naturally grow in the area.
• The Drakensberg siskin is seen in pairs or small flock, moving unobtrusively through bushes and scrub as it forages for seeds (including proteas), buds and insects.
• Fynbos is a belt of natural shrubland located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces with a unique flora dominated by ericas, proteas and restios.
• It has a distinctive, heathland vegetation known as fynbos, characterised by small evergreen, sclerophyllous plants including proteas and ericoid species, herbs, bulbous plants, and grasses, but not large trees.
• This genus, as with other proteas, is popular with nectarivorous birds such as the Cape sugarbird and several sunbird species.
• He has played with the pro clubs Khimki BC, Spartak Saint Petersburg, Ural Great, Proteas EKA AEL and BC Krasnye Krylia.
• However, they lost to eventual champions Barons LMT 88–82 in the semifinal and to Proteas EKA AEL 79–70 in the third place game.
• Finally, after almost one decade in the amateur leagues of Athens, Doxa managed to take part in 2007-08 season of Delta Ethniki, after a successful merger with Proteas Palea Fokea.
• Proteas captain Graeme Smith saw it as his team's best chance to win a Test rubber Down Under: the bowling attack was globally vaunted, the fielding polished and the batsmen enjoying a particularly fecund run, Neil McKenzie, Hashim Amla and Smith himself all having passed 1,000 Test runs for the year, while Ashwell Prince and AB de Villiers hovered around the 900 mark.
• However, the Proteas, Ericas and Restios — typical of fynbos habitats — tend to occur in very low abundance in renosterveld.
• Restio and Asteraceous (daisy) species are most common, with Proteas and Ericas being relatively rarer.
• A striking feature of this vegetation is the presence of massive, tree-like Proteas such as the groves of Waboom trees (Protea nitida) which grow in the northern section, the famous Silvertrees (Leucadendron argenteum) which dominate the wetter southern and eastern slopes, and the endemic Grey Tree Pincushion Protea (Leucospermum conocarpodendron) which covers the drier western slopes.
• The nomenclature Proteas XV is of import here and the distinction is made since whilst the Proteas' running backline included notable SARFF star players such as Ronnie Louw, John Noble, Hennie Shields, Charles Williams, Frankie Davids, Errol Tobias (who notched two penalties on the day) and Attie Lategan, the Proteas' forward pack's front five was composed entirely of white Western Province players.

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