family Cordaitaceae

family Cordaitaceae
noun
chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus
Syn: ↑Cordaitaceae
Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm family
Member Holonyms: ↑Cordaitales, ↑order Cordaitales
Member Meronyms: ↑Cordaites, ↑genus Cordaites

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  • Cordaitaceae — noun chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus • Syn: ↑family Cordaitaceae • Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm family • Member Holonyms: ↑Cordaitales, ↑order Cordaitales • …   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

  • Cordaites — noun tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers • Syn: ↑genus Cordaites • Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Cordaitaceae, ↑family… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Cordaitales — noun extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian period; probably extinct since the Mesozoic era • Syn: ↑order Cordaitales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms:… …   Useful english dictionary

  • genus Cordaites — noun tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers • Syn: ↑Cordaites • Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Cordaitaceae, ↑family Cordaitaceae …   Useful english dictionary

  • order Cordaitales — noun extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian period; probably extinct since the Mesozoic era • Syn: ↑Cordaitales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms:… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Cordaites — The explosive is spelled Cordite. Cordaites Temporal range: Late Carboniferous …   Wikipedia

  • Cordaitales — ▪ fossil plant order       an order of coniferophytes (phylum, sometimes division, Coniferophyta), fossil plants dominant during the Carboniferous Period (359 million to 299 million years ago) directly related to the conifers (order Coniferales) …   Universalium

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