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CORDAITACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cordaitaceae mean?
• CORDAITACEAE (noun)
The noun CORDAITACEAE has 1 sense:
1. chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus
Familiarity information: CORDAITACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cordaitaceae; family Cordaitaceae
Hypernyms ("Cordaitaceae" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Cordaitaceae"):
Cordaites; genus Cordaites (tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers)
Holonyms ("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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