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CLASS LYCOPSIDA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
Synonyms:
class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Lycopsida" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Lycopsida"):
class Lycopodineae; Lycopodineae (alternative designation for the class Lycopsida)
club-moss; club moss; lycopod (primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles)
Lepidodendrales; order Lepidodendrales (fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous)
Lycopodiales; order Lycopodiales (lower vascular plants coextensive with the family Lycopodiaceae; in some classifications includes the Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae)
order Selaginellales; Selaginellales (in some classifications included in Lycopodiales)
Isoetales; order Isoetales (aquatic or marsh-growing fern allies; known to have existed since the Cenozoic; sometimes included in Lycopodiales)
Holonyms ("class Lycopsida" is a member of...):
division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)