Protea (disambiguation)
Protea is a genus of flowers in the family Proteaceae.
Protea may also refer to:
- Protea (car), a motorcar build in South Africa during 1957 and 1958
- South Africa national cricket team is called "The Proteas"
- The representative side of the South African Rugby Football Federation (one of four racially segregated rugby union governing bodies in apartheid South Africa) was called the Proteas.
- Protea (telephone), a South African telephone plug design
- National sports teams of South Africa are officially nicknamed "the Proteas" (except the rugby union team and the soccer team).
- 9313 Protea, an asteroid, presumably named after the flower genus
- 'Protéa', the eponymous character played by Josette Andriot in a series of French silent espionnage films made between 1913 and 1919.
- SAS Protea (A324), a survey vessel of the South African Navy.
- Protea Hotels by Marriott, a hotel brand.
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