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CYCADALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms
Synonyms:
Cycadales; order Cycadales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cycadales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Cycadales"):
cycad family; Cycadaceae; family Cycadaceae (ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids)
family Zamiaceae; zamia family; Zamiaceae (a family of cycads often included in the family Cycadaceae: zamias)
Holonyms ("Cycadales" is a member of...):
class Cycadopsida; Cycadophyta; Cycadophytina; Cycadopsida; subdivision Cycadophyta; subdivision Cycadophytina (palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta))
