Coniferales — noun profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves • Syn: ↑order Coniferales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Coniferopsida, ↑class Coniferopsida, ↑Coniferophytina … Useful english dictionary
order Ginkgoales — noun coextensive with the family Ginkgoaceae: plants that first appeared in the Permian and now represented by a single surviving species; often included in Coniferales • Syn: ↑Ginkgoales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Ginkgopsida … Useful english dictionary
plant order — noun the order of plants • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Anthocerotales, ↑order Anthocerotales, ↑Andreaeales, ↑order Andreaeales, ↑Bryales, ↑order Bryales, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
conifer — /koh neuh feuhr, kon euh /, n. 1. any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae (or group Coniferales), including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone bearing trees and shrubs, and also the yews and their allies… … Universalium
class Coniferopsida — noun cone bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in… … Useful english dictionary
Coniferophyta — noun cone bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in… … Useful english dictionary
Coniferophytina — noun cone bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in… … Useful english dictionary
Coniferopsida — noun cone bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in… … Useful english dictionary
subdivision Coniferophytina — noun cone bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in… … Useful english dictionary
family Taxaceae — noun sometimes classified as member of order Taxales • Syn: ↑Taxaceae, ↑yew family • Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm family • Member Holonyms: ↑Coniferales, ↑order Coniferales … Useful english dictionary
