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    FAMILY RHYNIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Primitive plants of the Paleozoicplay

    Synonyms:

    family Rhyniaceae; Rhyniaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

    Meronyms (members of "family Rhyniaceae"):

    genus Rhynia; Rhynia (type genus of the Rhyniaceae; small leafless dichotomously branching fossil plants with terminal sporangia and smooth branching rhizomes)

    genus Horneophyton; Horneophyton (Devonian fossil plant considered one of the earliest forms of vascular land plants; similar to genus Rhynia but smaller)

    Holonyms ("family Rhyniaceae" is a member of...):

    order Psilophytales; Psilophytales (Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants)

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