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LEPIDODENDRALES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous

Synonyms:

Lepidodendrales; order Lepidodendrales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lepidodendrales"):

family Lepidodendraceae; Lepidodendraceae (fossil plants characterized by conspicuous spirally arranged leaf scars on the trunk)

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

class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)

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