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    FAMILY CORDAITACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genusplay

    Synonyms:

    Cordaitaceae; family Cordaitaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "family Cordaitaceae"):

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

    Holonyms ("family 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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