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    GNETOPSIDA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta)play

    Synonyms:

    class Gnetopsida; Gnetophyta; Gnetophytina; Gnetopsida; subdivision Gnetophytina

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    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Gnetopsida"):

    Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)

    Holonyms ("Gnetopsida" 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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