- family Ephedraceae
- nounephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae• Syn: ↑Ephedraceae• Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm family• Member Holonyms: ↑Gnetales, ↑order Gnetales• Member Meronyms: ↑genus Ephedra
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Ephedraceae — noun ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae • Syn: ↑family Ephedraceae • Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm family • Member Holonyms: ↑Gnetales, ↑order Gnetales • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
gymnosperm family — noun a family of gymnosperms • Hypernyms: ↑plant family • Hyponyms: ↑Gnetaceae, ↑family Gnetaceae, ↑Ephedraceae, ↑family Ephedraceae, ↑Welwitschiaceae, ↑family We … Useful english dictionary
Ephedra (genus) — This article is about the genus Ephedra. For the use of the plant in medicine, see Ephedra. Ephedra Ephedra fragilis in Mallorca … Wikipedia
Gnetales — noun chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms • Syn: ↑order Gnetales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Gnetopsida, ↑class Gnetopsida, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
order Gnetales — noun chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms • Syn: ↑Gnetales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Gnetopsida, ↑class Gnetopsida, ↑Gneto … Useful english dictionary
genus Ephedra — noun type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions • Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Ephedraceae, ↑family Ephedraceae • Member Meronyms:… … Useful english dictionary
Ephedra distachya — Taxobox name = Ephedra distachya image width = 240px image caption = Ephedra distachya in France regnum = Plantae divisio = Gnetophyta classis = Gnetopsida ordo = Ephedrales familia = Ephedraceae genus = Ephedra species = E. distachya binomial =… … Wikipedia
gnetophyte — ▪ plant Introduction any member of the division Gnetophyta, a small group of gymnospermous vascular plants that are represented by three living genera: Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. There are 65 species in the genus Ephedra, 30 or more… … Universalium
ephedra — /i fed reuh, ef i dreuh/, n. any of various plants of the genus Ephedra, growing in dry regions and having branching stems with dry scalelike leaves. [ < NL (Linnaeus) < Gk ephédra the horsetail plant, lit., sitting (upon a place), equiv. to ep… … Universalium
ephedra — noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Latin, equisetum, from Greek, from ephedros sitting upon, from epi + hedra seat more at sit Date: circa 1889 1. any of a genus (Ephedra of the family Ephedraceae) of jointed nearly leafless shrubs of… … New Collegiate Dictionary
