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FAMILY CORDAITACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus
Synonyms:
Cordaitaceae; family Cordaitaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Cordaitaceae" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "family Cordaitaceae"):
Cordaites; genus Cordaites (tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers)
Holonyms ("family Cordaitaceae" is a member of...):
Cordaitales; order Cordaitales (extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian period; probably extinct since the Mesozoic era)
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