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CLASS SPHENOPSIDA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horsetails and related forms
Synonyms:
class Equisetatae; class Sphenopsida; Equisetatae; Sphenopsida
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Sphenopsida" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Sphenopsida"):
Equisetales; order Equisetales (lower tracheophytes in existence since the Devonian)
Holonyms ("class Sphenopsida" 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)
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