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PSILOPHYTALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants
Synonyms:
order Psilophytales; Psilophytales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Psilophytales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Psilophytales"):
psilophyte (any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant)
family Psilophytaceae; Psilophytaceae (Paleozoic plants)
family Rhyniaceae; Rhyniaceae (primitive plants of the Paleozoic)
Holonyms ("Psilophytales" 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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