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ORDER LEPIDODENDRALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous
Synonyms:
Lepidodendrales; order Lepidodendrales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Lepidodendrales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "order Lepidodendrales"):
family Lepidodendraceae; Lepidodendraceae (fossil plants characterized by conspicuous spirally arranged leaf scars on the trunk)
Holonyms ("order Lepidodendrales" is a member of...):
class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)