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    CYCADOPSIDA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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)play

    Synonyms:

    class Cycadopsida; Cycadophyta; Cycadophytina; Cycadopsida; subdivision Cycadophyta; subdivision Cycadophytina

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "Cycadopsida"):

    Cycadales; order Cycadales (primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms)

    Bennettitales; order Bennettitales (fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous)

    Holonyms ("Cycadopsida" is a member of...):

    class Gymnospermae; division Gymnospermophyta; Gymnospermae; Gymnospermophyta (plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida))

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