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    LYCOPSIDA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophytaplay

    Synonyms:

    class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Lycopsida"):

    class Lycopodineae; Lycopodineae (alternative designation for the class Lycopsida)

    club-moss; club moss; lycopod (primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles)

    Lepidodendrales; order Lepidodendrales (fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous)

    Lycopodiales; order Lycopodiales (lower vascular plants coextensive with the family Lycopodiaceae; in some classifications includes the Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae)

    order Selaginellales; Selaginellales (in some classifications included in Lycopodiales)

    Isoetales; order Isoetales (aquatic or marsh-growing fern allies; known to have existed since the Cenozoic; sometimes included in Lycopodiales)

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

    division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)

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