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CORDAITACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus

Synonyms:

Cordaitaceae; family Cordaitaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cordaitaceae" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cordaitaceae"):

Cordaites; genus Cordaites (tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers)

Holonyms ("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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